PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Albert Bandura, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Family Therapy
17 May 2016
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Treatment/therapy: systematic procedures designed to change abnormal behaviour into more normal behaviour. Psychotherapy: a treatment system in which a client and therapist use words and acts to overcome the client"s psychological difficulties. Biological therapy: the use of physical and chemical procedures to help people overcome psychological difficulties. According to the clinical theorist jerome frank, all forms of therapy have three essential features: A series of contacts between healer and sufferer, through which the healer tries to produce certain changes in the sufferer"s emotional state, attitudes, and behaviour. The healing process may be brought about by psychotherapy, biological therapy, or both. Clinical researchers gather information systematically so that they can better describe, explain, and predict psychological disorder. The knowledge is then used by clinicians, whose role is to detect, assess, and treat people with psychological disorders. Some clinicians view abnormality as an illness and so consider therapy a procedure that helps cure it.
