PSYC36H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Expressed Sequence Tag, American Psychiatric Association
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Goals of psychotherapy: similarities between psychotherapy and counselling, focus on alleviating symptoms and psychological growth, as well as individual growth and goal attainment, working with process goals (ex. Core determinants of human experience: each treatment focuses on aspects of human experiences that seem to be most important (to that treatment, ex. One treatment sees emotions as a crucial part of the human experience, while another treatment prefers to view emotions from a more objective perspective. Treatment of disorders and difficulties: more therapies are trying to reduce specific sets of dysfunctional behaviours and increasing functional ones. Such approaches have two variants: treatments that center on building competencies and overcoming difficulties; that is, they aim to change behaviour patterns, treatments that specifically aim to impact on the disorders catalogued in the diagnostic and statistical.
