PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Aversion Therapy, Social Learning Theory, Systematic Desensitization
16 Jan 2017
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Therapists and therapeutic settings: counseling psychologist, clinical social worker, pastoral counselor, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst. Goals of major therapeutic approaches: reaching a diagnosis, proposing a probable etiology, making a prognosis, treatment. Focus on changing faulty behaviors, thoughts, perceptions, and emotions: biomedical therapies. Alter brain functioning with chemical or physical interventions. Therapists and therapeutic settings: patient: used by biomedical approach, client: used by clinicians who think of psychological disorders as problems in living. Intensive and prolonged technique for exploring unconscious motivations and conflicts. Therapist guides patient toward discovering insights between present symptoms and past origins: techniques. Free association: thoughts, wishes, physical sensations, and mental images as they occur. Dream analysis: examines the content of dreams to discover underlying motivations and symbolic meanings: processes. Behavior therapies: behavior therapy (behavior modification): systematic use of principles of learning to increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors, counterconditioning: substitute a new response for a maladaptive one.
