PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Borderline Personality Disorder, Reuptake, Lamotrigine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

The belief that people with psychological problems can change can learn more adaptive ways of perceiving,evaluation and behaving; if the conviction underlying all psychotherapy. When a pharmaceutical company develops a new drug, it must obtain approval of the drug from hpb before that drug can be marketed in. This involves demonstrating through research on human subjects that the drug has efficacy (does what its supposed to do in curing or relieving some target condition) These tests are called randomized controlled trials (rcts) or efficacy trials. This double-blind procedure is an effort to ensure that expectations on the part of the patient and prescriber play no role in the study. Modern psychopharmacology has helped many individuals who would otherwise require hospitalization to function in their family and community settings. 55% of patients receive both meds and psychotherapy in meds along treatments, 55% of patients did well and in psychotherapy alone conditions, 52% did well.