Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Family Therapy, Stepfamily, Ethology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Alvin Segal

Document Summary

Insight therapies: talk therapy , verbal interactions with your therapies, can be done in a group too, 2. Behaviour therapies: based on learning and conditioning, making direct efforts to alter problematic responses and maladaptive habits, biomedical therapies. Modern psychodynamic therapies: psychoanalysis freud-style is not really used anymore, recent reviews of this treatment say that interpretation, resistance, and transference continue to play key roles in therapeutic efforts, 1. Modern features of this therapy include: 2. Exploration of efforts to avoid distressing thoughts: 4. Identification of recurring patterns in patients life experiences: 5. Therapeutic climate: emotional climate where therapy takes place is very important, rogers believed that client centered therapists must provide 3 conditions, 1. Genuineness: therapist must communicate in an honest manner, they should not be defensive, 2. Unconditional positive regard: they cannot be judgmental, should provide love and warmth but with no strings attached, 3. Empathy: therapist must understand the clients world from the clients point of view.