Download Chapter 9 Learning Objectives

Chapter 9 Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, the learner should be able to:
Module 9.1
Understand the essential aspects of psychotherapy.
Describe traditional Freudian analysis.
Discuss the major aspects of traditional psychoanalysis (such as free
association and transference)
Identify how modern psychodynamic approaches differ from traditional
psychoanalysis.
Module 9.2
Explain Carl Rogers’s method of client-centered therapy.
Discuss the qualities of an effective client-centered therapist.
Describe Fritz Perls’s method of gestalt therapy.
Module 9.3
Explain behavior therapy.
Summarize some behavior-therapy methods for reducing fears.
Express how behavior therapists use aversive conditioning to help people
break bad habits.
Identify how behavior therapists apply principles of operant conditioning.
Module 9.4
Describe Aaron Beck’s method of cognitive therapy.
Explain Albert Ellis’s method of rational-emotive behavior therapy.
Module 9.5
Identify the advantages and disadvantages of group therapy.
Describe couples therapy.
Explain family therapy.
Discuss the pros and cons of internet counseling.
Module 9.6
Appraise the effectiveness of psychotherapy.
Outline the problems that researchers encounter when they conduct
research on psychotherapy.
Module 9.7
Explain how issues of diversity come into play in therapy.
Module 9.8
Describe what types of drug therapy are available for psychological
disorders.
Describe electroconvulsive therapy.
Explain what psychosurgery is and how it is used to treat psychological
disorders.
Identify what is known about the effectiveness of biomedical therapies.
Module 9.9
Identify ways of coping with anxieties and fears.
Describe how to manage anger.
Explain how to lift your mood.