PSYC 1010 Chapter 15: Psych Notes (Chapter 15).docx

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Freud was influenced by the anna o case study, that helped him come up with psychoanalysis. There are more than 400 approaches to treatments: classified into 3 major categories, insight therapies. Talk therapy": clients engage in complex verbal interactions with their therapists, goal is to pursue increased insight regarding the nature of the clients difficulties and to sort through possible solutions, can be done in groups or individually. Family therapy and marital therapy: behaviour therapies, based on principles of learning, efforts to change problematic responses (ie phobias) and maladaptive habits (ie drugs) Involve classical conditioning, operant conditioning, or observational learning: biomedical therapies. Interventions into a person"s biological functioning: drug therapy & electroconvulsive (shock) therapy most widely used procedures (used by medical physicians) If improvements are not forthcoming or if people suffer from unexpected difficulties, they may seek professional assistance. Two most common problems are excessive anxiety & depression. People compare seeking therapy with admitting to personal weakness.