PSY343H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Psychoactive Drug, Managed Care, Chameleon
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Psychotherapy integration = looks beyond the confines of single-school approaches to see what can be learned and how clients can benefit from other approaches. Dodo bird verdict = alice in wonderland everyone has won and all must have prices : allegiance effect = theoretical views of researcher greatly influences therapy outcomes. Technical eclectism = (goal) (460) to improve ability to select best treatment for client/problem, guided by research on what has worked best for others w/similar problems/characteristics. Focus on predicting for whom interventions will work. Theory of personality and psychopathology anxiety is the core of neurosis ( both psychoanalysts and behaviorists agree) Psychotherapy is first/foremost a human relationship; affirmative/active; both precondition and process of change. Wachtel: you can"t go far in neutral externalization in the service of the therapy = strategy of enabling people to recognize and take responsibility for their experiences by initially placing the responsibility elsewhere centrality of non-pejorative, therapeutic communication.
