PSYCH 127A Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Theoretical Plate
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Psychopharmacology - medications that have psychological effects. Psychodynamic paradigm - encourage exploration of past relationships to gain insight to current motivations. Cognitive behavioral paradigm - focus on present and teaching more adaptive thoughts, behaviors and feelings. Humanistic psychotherapy - empathy and heightening emotional awareness. Different therapies work and include common factors across treatments and active ingredients for specific disorders. Placebo effect - changes that occur through expectations about a treatment"s effectiveness. Placebos serve as a control to study active ingredients. Couple therapy, family therapy, and group therapy produce individual change by altering relationships. Some prevention efforts attempt to change dysfunctional aspects of society. Chapter 4: classification and assessment of abnormal behavior. Classification - list of various types of problems and their associated symptoms. Diagnosis - identification or recognition of a disorder on the basis of its characteristic symptoms. Allows clinician to refer to the base of knowledge accumulated with regard to the disorder. Provide clues about symptoms and effective treatments.
