PSYA02H3 Chapter 18: chapter 18 textbook notes

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

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1chapter 18 the treatment of mental disorders. four basic approaches to treatment of mental disorders: insight therapies, behaviour therapy and cognitive-behaviour therapies, treatment of groups (including treatment of couples and the development of outreach programs that serve the community), and biological treatments. mental disorders have been with us since the beginning of human existence. people with the disorders were regarded with fear or awe. often considered possessed by devils or evil sprits and made to suffer accordingly. earliest known attempts to treat mental disorders - trephining: drilling holes into a person"s skull; the opening permitted evil spirits to leave the victim"s head. signs of healing in prehistoric skulls show that some people survived trephining. people were thought to possess evil spirits; exorcisms performed, beatings, starving, near drowning, drinking of foul-tasting concoctions. people thought they deserved to be punished because they were evil".