Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Systematic Desensitization, Belief, Exposure Hierarchy
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Treatment of Psychological Disorders
• Mental health professionals fall into several categories:
o Counseling and clinical psychologists – typically hold a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
o Psychiatrists – medical doctors who specialize in psychotherapy and biomedical
treatments
o Therapist, counselor, psychotherapist, hypnotist are NOT protected terms
• APA membership: 29% eclectic (combined), 21% psychodynamic, 16% behavioural, 13%
cognitive, 12% humanistic, 9% other
Psychodynamic Therapies
• Psychoanalysis
o Goal is to help clients achieve insight (conscious awareness of psychodynamics
that underlie their problems)
o Free association – procedure of verbalizing all thoughts that enter consciousness
without censorship
• Freud sat out of sight from patient so thought processes would be
determined by internal factors
o Dream interpretation through free association of dream elements
o Resistance – defensive maneuvers that hinder the process of therapy
o Transference – psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a client responds
irrationally to the aalst as if he ere a iportat perso fro the liet’s
past ho plas a iportat role i the liet’s dais
• Positive transference occurs when a client transfers intense affection,
dependency, or love to the analyst
• Negative transference occurs when a client transfers expressions of
anger, hatred, or disappointment to the analyst
o Interpretation – any statement by the therapist intended to provide the client
with insight into their behaviour or dynamics
• Brief Psychodynamic Therapies
o Clients seen a few times a week, rather than daily
o Focus on current life situations, rather than on past childhood experiences
o Interpersonal therapy – for of rief therap that fouses o the liet’s
interpersonal problems and seeks to develop new interpersonal skills
Humanistic Psychotherapies
• Client-Centred Therapy
o Most important part of therapy is relationship that develops between client and
therapist
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