PSY240H1 Chapter Notes -Therapeutic Relationship, Beck Depression Inventory, Borderline Personality Disorder

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY240H1
• Professor: Shaun Burns

Document Summary

Therapy (chapter 17: who provides psychotherpeutic services, physicians. Trained to recognize psychological problems beyond their own expertise, and refer patients to psychological specialists: clergy. Frequently first professional to encounter person having an emotional crisis. Most only provide religious and spiritual counselling, not actual psychotherapy. Trained to recognize psychological problems beyond their own expertise, and refer patients to psychological specialists: mental health professionals. Psychiatrists: medical training and licensure qualifications allow them to prescribe psychoactive medications, administer treatment such as electroconvulsive therapy, differ from psychologists in treating patients with biological approach, psychologists" treatment mostly involve treating behaviour and thought patterns. Team-based approach involving coordinated treatments of different mental health professionals: the therapeutic relationship, the therapeutic alliance. The relationship between the therapist and patient is therapeutic in its own right. Therapists" own personal characteristics help determine therapeutic outcome. Not all clients are ready for the temporary discomfort of therapy.