PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes -Disulfiram, Psychotic Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder

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

Document Summary

Psychotherapy: the belief that people with psychological problems can change can learn more adaptive ways of perceiving, evaluating and behaving. Therapy takes time and offers no magical transformations. However, it does hold promise even for the most severe mental disorders and contrary to the common opinion, psychotherapy can be less expensive in the long run than alternative modes of intervention. Vary widely in their problems and in their motivations to solve them. Sudden and highly stressful situations such as divorce or unemployment. People who feel so overwhelmed by a crisis that they cannot manage on their own. They are motivated to alter their present intolerable mental states. In such situations, clients may improve considerably in brief time by adopting the perspective provided by their therapist. Lengthy histories of maladjustment and long-term psychological distress. They may have had interpersonal problems such as inability to be comfortable with intimacy or has felt susceptible to low moods.