ADV 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Pharmacotherapy, Fluoxetine, Chlorpromazine
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Psychotherapy: a psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems to improve the quality of their lives. Psychotherapy can be practiced by many different professionals, such as licensed professionals: clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counsellors, and clinical social workers. There are also unlicensed practitioners such as religious, vocational and rehabilitation counsellors, as well as therapists. All psychotherapists have extensive schooling in psychology and mental health; paraprofessionals, those without formal degrees are ones to be wary of. Psychodynamic therapies are treatments inspired by classical psychoanalysis influenced by. Psychoanalysis is lengthy and expensive treatment that often lasts years, while psychodynamic is characterized by less costly, briefer sessions lasting weeks or months. Psychodynamic therapies as well as humanistic therapies fall into a group called insight therapies: psychotherapies whose goal is expanding awareness or insight. Some examples of different methods of psychodynamic therapy are:
