PSY 124 Study Guide - Atypical Antipsychotic, Prefrontal Cortex, Electroconvulsive Therapy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 124
• Professor: Thomas Barbiero

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Treatments: how many are there: insight therapies ( talk therapy ): clients engage in complex verbal interactions with their therapists. This therapy can be conducted with one person, or in a group. Ex: family therapy, marriage therapy: behaviour therapies: behaviour therapists make direct efforts to alter problematic responses (ex: phobias) and maladaptive habits (ex: drug use). Most of their procedures involve classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning: biomedical therapies: involves interventions into a person"s biological functioning; this includes drug therapy and electroconvulsive (shock) therapy. These treatments are only provided by physicians with a medical degree usually psychiatrists. Clinical psychologists: emphasize the treatment of full-fledged disorders. Counselling psychologists: focus on the treatment of everyday adjustment problems. Both types of psychologists must earn a doctors degree (ph. d. ) Use either insight or behavioural approaches: psychiatrists: physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. Devote more time to severe disorders (schizophrenia, mood disorders)