Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sweat Lodge, Personal Unconscious, Spirit Guide

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

(1) supportive approaches: restore patients functioning rapidly and rid them of neurotic problems, you"re not trying to change the structure of personality, indicated for those who are well adjusted but are having problems due to environmental stress. (2) insight with re-educative goals: achieve insight into more conscious attitudes and con icts, examines how patient relates to self and others and source of tensions, patient tries out new behaviours and changes faulty thinking patterns. (3) insight with reconstructive goals: aim is to achieve insight into unconscious processes, reconstruction of the personality. Monday, october 31, 2016: respect and positive regard, genuineness, warmth, attending and communication skills. Able to mentally multitask (thinking on several levels) Ability to summarize and re ect back meaning of client"s messages: boundaries, emotional well being. Clinicians need to be emotionally balanced and mentally well in order to be fully available to the client: personality.