PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Albert Bandura
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Psychotherapy: use of psychological techniques to treat personality and behaviour disorders. Recent developments: therapists are more active and emotionally engaged with clients than traditional psychoanalysts, therapists give clients direct guidance and feedback: commenting more on the speeches of the patients; Short-term psycho-dynamic therapy: meeting once a week for fixed period, goal is to dig out the sight and do the interpretation; Behaviour therapies: abc -- antecedent, behaviour and consequence: focused on changing behaviour, rather than understanding thoughts and feelings, based on belief that all behaviour is learned, sharply contrasted with insight-oriented approaches; - not all the aversive conditionings are effective, for instance: electro-shock therapy to divert the homosexuality (banned); Therapies based on operant conditioning: person learns to behave certain way because behaviour is reinforced or people unlearned because behaviour is punished, behaviour contracting, token economy: reinforce or prompt people to do certain things;
