Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Positive Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, Recovered-Memory Therapy
14 Apr 2014
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In efforts to help people, mental health professionals use many methods of treatments with over 400 distinctive types of psychotherapy. Approaches to treatment can be classified into three major categories: Insight therapies talk therapy conducted with an individual or a group. 1: behaviour therapies make direct effort to alter problematic responses and maladaptive habits, biomedical therapies involve interventions into a person"s physiological functioning. About 15% of the us population use mental health services in a given year. Two most common presenting problems are excessive anxiety and depression. People often hold off for many years before finally seeking treatment. 6y for bipolar treatment or drug dependence, 8y for depression, 9y for anxiety disorder, and 10ys for panic disorder. A client in treatment does not necessarily have an identifiable psychological disorder. About half of the people that use these services meet the criteria for a mental disorder. Treatment is more likely in women and men.
