Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Sertraline, Diazepam, Deinstitutionalisation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Overall goal: help people change maladaptive, self-defeating thoughts, feelings and behaviour patterns so they can live happier and more productive lives. Group a: counselling & clinical psychologists, psychologists. Hold ph. d (doctor of philosophy) or psy. d (doctor of psychology) Received 5 or more years of intensive training & supervision in various psychotherapeutic techniques. Medical doctors who specialize in psychotherapy & biomedical treatments. Group c: psychiatric social workers, marriage & family counsellors, pastoral counsellors, abuse counsellors. Focuses on internal conflict & unconscious factors that underlie maladaptive behaviour. Psychoanalysis: refers to freud"s theory of personality & specific approach to treatment. Goal: help clients achieve insight: conscious awareness of psychodynamics that underlie their problems, permits clients to adjust their behaviour to their current life situations. Client repeatedly encounters & deals with buried emotions, motives, and conflicts psychic energy can be released and redirected to more adaptive ways of living. Mental events are meaningfully associated with one another.