PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dyskinesia, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

1: behaviour therapies - based on principles of learning, biomedical therapies - involve intervenions into a person"s biological funcioning. People with problems: anxiety, depression (2 most common), unsaisfactory interpersonal relaions, troublesome habits, poor self-control, low self-esteem, marital conlicts, self-doubt, a sense of empiness, and feelings of personal stagnaion. Clinical psychologists & counselling psychologists: provide therapy, diagnose and treat psychological disorders & everyday behavioural problems o. Psychiatrists - physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders: more ime on severe disorders (schizophrenia, mood disorders) Mental health counsellors, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurses - all other professions will be called clinician, therapist, provider. Paients who are beter adjusted to begin with. Insight therapies - involve verbal interacions intended to enhance clients" self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior. Psychoanalysis is an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conlicts, moives, and defenses through techniques such as free associaion and transference.