English 2017 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Haloperidol, Thioridazine, Buspirone
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Psychologists: clinical psychologists and counseling psychologists specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems, training of clinical emphasizes treatment of full fledged disorders, training of counseling is slanted toward treatment of ever day adjustment problems in normal people, in providing therapy, often use insight or behavioral approaches, more likely to use behavioral techniques and less likely psychoanalytical. Psychiatrists: are physicians who specialize in the treatment of psychological disorders, also treat every day behavioral problems, devote more time to relatively severe disorders and less time to ever day, increasingly emphasize drugs, psychiatrists are abandoning talk therapies and behavioral interventions in favor of drug treatments. Resistance: involves largely unconscious defensive maneuvers intended to hinder the progress of therapy, this happens because the patients don"t want to face the painful, disturbing conflicts that they have buried in their unconscious, can take the form of showing up late, hostility toward therapist.