PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Observational Learning, Psychoanalysis, Group Psychotherapy
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Chapter 15 treatment of psychological disorders: the elements of the treatment process. Clients engage in complex verbal interactions with therapists: goal pursue increased insight regarding the nature of client"s difficulties and sort through possible solutions. i. e. family/marital therapy. b, behavior therapy based on principles of learning. Make direct efforts to alter problematic responses (i. e. phobias) and maladaptive habits (i. e. problematic responses (i. e. phobias) and maladaptive habits (i. e. drug use). a. Involve verbal interactions intended to enhance the client"s self knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior. Psychoanalysis an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious, conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference. Freud neurotic problems are caused by unconscious conflicts left over from early childhood. Free association clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible. Dream analysis therapist interprets symbolic meaning of the client"s dreams.
