PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thioridazine, Alprazolam, Fluoxetine

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Kim O' Neil

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Psychotherapy: insight therapies (looking at the unconscious, talk therapy , behaviour therapies, changing overt behaviours, cognitive behavioural therapy, changing thoughts too, biomedical therapies, biological functioning (drug therapy, ) Who provides treatment: clinical psychologists (focus on big disorders, anxiety depression, counselling psychologists (day to day issues, psychological associates, psychiatrists (have a medical degree who specialize in treating psychological disorders, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses, counsellors: high level degree, education counsellors, parental counsellors. B. f. skinner and colleagues: goal: unlearning maladaptive behaviours and learning adaptive ones, change the problematic behaviour, systematic desensitization, specifically to treat phobias, anxiety hierarchy, imagine yourself in situation step by step, aversion therapy, avert the stimulus causing problematic behaviour, alcohol being paired with nausea inducing drug to attach stimulus to alcohol being gross too, social skills training: Goal: to change the way clients think: self instructional training, detect and recognize negative thoughts, beck and ellis, cognitive therapy. mostly on depression, depression arises because of negative thinking, challenge negative thinking.