PSYC 3083 : Exam Review
Document Summary
Informed consent: confidentiality, without written permission nothing can be said to anyone about anything said in therapy, limitations. If and elderly person or child is being abused. Competence: the expertise to deal with certain types of situations. Theories: explain and predict behavior and behavior change, provides basis for treatment and helps organize thinking around that client, negative, creates bias for you in terms on how you look at the client. Factors of good theory: it has empirical evidence based on research showing that it works, has to be specific, law of parsimony, simplest explanation that can handle the data is the best. Feelings projected on other person and you believe they have those feelings for you: denial. Deny that something is true: sublimation. Doing something you wouldn"t ordinarily do but doing it in a socially acceptable manor: displacement. Feelings towards someone where its unacceptable to have those feelings and put those feelings on something or someone else.
