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Psychological Therapy
Two types of therapy
 Psychotherapy
 Talk therapy with a mental health professional
 Insight therapists
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Main goal is helping people gain insight with respect to their
behavior, thoughts and feelings
 Action therapists
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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
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“moral treatment”
Psychotherapy
 Talking things out with a professional
 Psychoanalysis
 Insight therapy based on Freud's theory
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Dream interpretation
Free Association
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
 Multiple approaches
 Insight
 Pulls together
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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
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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
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Use leading questions
Role playing
Behavior Therapy
 Action based treatment
 Classical and Operant Conditioning
 We Learn our abnormal behaviors
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And we can unlearn them
 Systemic Desensitization
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Therapist guides client through a series of steps
Relaxes client in front of feared object
 Aversion Therapy
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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
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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