PSYC 371 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psych, Hans Eysenck, Demand Characteristics

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 371
• Professor: Shannon Zaitsoff

Document Summary

Informed & intenional applicaion of clinical methods & interpersonal stances. Purpose of assising people in modifying their behaviours, cogniions, emoions, etc. Pracice designed to provide symptom relief & personality change. Enhance quality of life, promote adapive funcioning, increase likelihood of healthy choices. Speciic type of psychotherapy, or psychotherapy in general (cbt) Speciic technique used within certain type of therapy (cogniive restructuring) Nomotheic: does this paricular treatment work for a client with a paricular problem. Ideographic: does the treatment provide the changes we"re hoping to see. Beter relaions, quality of life, and/or funcioning at work/school. Anecdotal -> pretains to ideographic -> derived from experience, no systemaic observaion. Empirical -> pretaines to nomotheic -> experimentaion, pre-post designs -> systemaic, designed to measure change in target -> control groups & randomizaion are important. Need for treatment, feasibility, face-validity: stage 1, development, stage 2, validaion. A therapy works if we can consider it to be an empirically supported treatment (est)