PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Gestalt Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
2 Dec 2016
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Last class before the final exam --> december 6th. Barriers: belief systems, embarrassment, finances, access to clinics, or personnel. Not knowing where to access services, finding the right help, finding the right treatment. Psychotherapy: an interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from a psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem. Eclectic psychotherapy: treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem. Psychodynamic psychotherapists: a general approach to treatment that explores childhood events and encourages individuals to develop insight into their psychological problems. Free association: client reports every thought that enters their mind without censorship or filtering. Interpretation: therapist suggests possible meanings and looks for signs that the correct meaning has been identified. Transference: an event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client"s life and the client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies.
