PSYC 2000 Chapter : Modules 53 55 Psychological Therapies
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Therapy: treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively. Psychotherapy: help both mentally healthy and psychologically disordered persons understand themselves better and change the disrupting behavior. Most psychological professionals use a combination of insight and action therapy where they talk. Biomedical therapy: a person with a problem is treated with biological or medical methods to relieve symptoms. Reform of mental health treatment system led by philippe pinel and dorothea dix. Both change how they treat patients with disorders. Psychotherapy: treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. Eclectic approach: uses of techniques from various forms of therapy. Approach to therapy that combines elements of several different approaches or techniques. Psychoanalysis: sigmund freund"s therapeutic technique in which the patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
