PY - Psychology PY 100S Chapter 15: Chapter 15 Objectives Treatment of Disorders (1)
1 Dec 2016
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Chapter 15 reading objectives: treatment of psychological disorders: define psychotherapy. The treatment of mental disorder by psychological rather than medical means: describe the common features of treatments. Compare and contrast psychiatrists, psychologists, and other types of therapists: client. Describe the differences between classical psychoanalysis and its modern variations: psychoanalysis. Relation between life history and current problems. Free association: the talking cure, clients report whatever thoughts are in mind. Working through: how does the client"s unconscious affect everyday life, contemporary psychoanalysis. Less emphasis on biological drives from the id and unconscious. Focus on role of social relationships: how the power of the ego can be used to solve relationship problems. Therapists are more active: direct client"s attention to evidence of conflict in social relationships. Shorter duration: brief psychotherapy (8-12 weeks, describe the theoretical basis of humanistic approach to therapy. List the four assumptions on which humanistic therapists operate. Treatment is an encounter between equals not a cure given by an expert.
