PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Structural Family Therapy, Carl Jung, Psychological Intervention
29 Nov 2016
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Psychology textbook notes chapter 16: psychological and biological. * psychotherapy: psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives. * there is no evidence that client-therapist ethnic or gender matches enhance therapy outcome. * those who realize they contribute to their problem, are motivated to change and are anxious, mostly due to temporary problems, react best to treatment. * clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counsellors, clinical social workers, as well as unlicensed religious, vocational and rehabilitation counsellors and art therapists provide psychological services. * effective therapists tend to be warm, direct, able to establish a positive working relationship, tend to not contradict clients, select important topics to discuss, and are caring and respectful. * psychodynamic therapies: treatments inspired by classic psychoanalysis and influenced by freud, focus on insight. * insight therapies: goal is to cultivate insight, or expanded awareness.
