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Ch 15. Psychological Therapy. Two types of therapy . Psychotherapy Talk therapy with a mental health professional Insight therapists Main goal is helping people gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts and feelings Action therapists
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Ch 15 Psychological Therapy
Two types of therapy • Psychotherapy • Talk therapy with a mental health professional • Insight therapists • Main goal is helping people gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts and feelings • Action therapists • Main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior
History • First “mental health hospital” Bethlehem Hospital in London, known as Bedlam • Blood letting • Beatings • Ice baths • Induced vomiting • 1793 began • “moral treatment”
Psychotherapy • Talking things out with a professional • Psychoanalysis • Insight therapy based on Freud's theory • Dream interpretation • Free Association
Interpersonal Psychotherapy • Multiple approaches • Insight • Pulls together • Humanistic • Cognitive Behavioral • Focus is on interpersonal problems • Depression • Relationships with others • Events of everyday life
Humanistic Therapy • Carl Rogers • Client or person Centered Therapy • Client does the talking, therapist listens • Shows the client unconditional positive regard • Non directive • Reflective • Empathy • Authenticity
Gestalt Therapy • Directive insight therapy • Client works through accepting all parts of their feelings and subjective experiences • Use leading questions • Role playing
Behavior Therapy • Action based treatment • Classical and Operant Conditioning • We Learn our abnormal behaviors • And we can unlearn them • Systemic Desensitization • Therapist guides client through a series of steps • Relaxes client in front of feared object • Aversion Therapy • Undesirable behavior is paired with an unpleasant stimulus
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Helps clients change their way of thinking • Makes clients test their thoughts and feelings • Focus is on the present and observations of the world and those around them • Overgeneralization • Selective thinking • Overgeneralization • Magnification or minimization
Goals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Relieve the symptoms and resolve the problem • Develop strategies to cope in the future • Change way of thinking
Group Therapies • Can use any of the listed treatments in a session • Family • Self Help • Addiction treatment
How Effective is Therapy • 75-90 Percent of people feel that psychotherapy has helped • Barriers • Cultural