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Module 40
Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic, Behavioral,
and Cognitive Approaches to Treatment
Chapter 13 – Pages 492-506
Essentials of Understanding Psychology- Sixth Edition
PSY110 Psychology
© Richard Goldman
June 13, 2006
Mental Health Professionals
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Psychiatrist
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Psychoanalyst – MD (or psychologist)
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Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Assessment and treatment of psychological disorders
Mental Health Counselor, Licensed
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Specializing in psychoanalysis (Freudian)
Psychologist
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MD with postgraduate training in abnormal behavior
Assessment and treatment of psychological and related
physical disorders
Can prescribe medication
MA plus State and/or National certification
Social Worker
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The Main Types of Therapy
Psychotherapy
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Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Cognitive
Humanistic
Biomedical Therapy
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Drugs Therapy
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Psychosurgery
Psychodynamic Approach
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Psychoanalysis assist a patient in exposing
unconscious (repressed) and unresolved conflicts.
Very long process often taking many years
Employs:
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Free Association
Dream Analysis
Transference (Transfer feelings of loved one to annalist)
Some newer psychodynamic approaches are
faster
Provides insight into one’s life
Questionable effectiveness
Behavioral Approach
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Therapists help people learn new skills and behaviors and
unlearn maladaptive ones.
Abnormal behaviors are considered the problem and dealt
directly using classical and operant conditioning.
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Aversive (Classical) Conditioning – Shock, Illness, Pain
Operant Conditioning – Rewards, Withholding & Punishment
Systematic Desensitization – Baby steps
Observational Learning – “Fearless Peer” (watching others)
Works well for phobias, compulsions, and behavioral
disorders
Cognitive Approach
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The therapist helps clients eliminate maladaptive
thoughts and beliefs and adopt more effective
thinking.
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Cognitive Therapy – Teaches clients more appropriate
ways to view themselves and the world
Rational-emotive Therapy – Directly confronts and
challenges the clients inappropriate views
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We need love or acceptance from every person we know.
We need approval for everything we do.
We should be competent in all respects to consider ourselves
worthwhile.
It is horrible when things do not turn our the way we want them to.
My parents taught me….
Effective for phobias, panic, and many other
disorders