PSYC 1013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Behaviour Therapy, Systematic Desensitization, Dream Interpretation
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Doctoral degree in clinical psychology; provides therapy for people with mental disorders. Doctoral degree in psychological or educational counseling; counsels people with milder problems such as academic, job, and relationship problems. Medical degree with residency in mental health; provides. Psychiatrist therapy for people with mental disorders; only therapist who can prescribe drugs or other biomedical treatment. Any of the above credentials, but with training from a psychoanalytic institute; provides psychoanalytic therapy for psychological disorders. Maste(cid:396)"s o(cid:396) do(cid:272)to(cid:396)al degree in social work with specialized training in counseling; helps with social problems (e. g. , family problems) Four major types of psychotherapies: psychoanalysis, behavioural, humanistic, cognitive. Psychoanalysis and humanistic therapies are called insight therapies because they stress that a person achieve understanding of the causes of their behavior and thinking. Behavioral and cognitive therapies are usually referred to as actions therapies because they stress that the actions of the person must change for therapy to be effective.
