PSYC 2000 Chapter : 2015 12 1 PsychTherapies 1
Document Summary
Treatment in the (dark) past: mentally ill people began to be confined to institutions called asylums in the mid 1500s, treatments were harsh and often damaging, philippe pinel became famous for demanding that the mentally ill be treated with kindness, personally unlocking the chains of inmates in. Types of therapy: therapy: treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively, two broad categories, one based primarily in psychological theory and techniques, the other uses medical intervention to bring symptoms under control. Therapy: psychotherapy: therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional, insight therapies: psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings, action therapy: psychotherapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly.
