PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Reuptake, Systematic Desensitization, Antipsychotic

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Joordan

Document Summary

Psychotherapy the processes for resolving personal, emotional, behavioral, and social problems so as to improve well being. Clinical psychologists mental health professionals with doctoral degrees who diagnose and treat mental health problems ranging from the everyday to the chronic and severe. Counseling psychologists mental health professionals who typically work with people needing help with common problems such as stress, coping, and mild forms of anxiety and depression, rather than severe mental disorders. Psychiatrists physicians who specialize in mental health, and who diagnose and treat mental disorders primarily through prescribing medications that influence brain chemistry. Residential treatment centers provide psychotherapy and life skills training so that the residents can become integrated into society to the greatest extent possible. Community psychology an area of psychology that focuses on identifying how individuals" mental health is influenced by the neighborhood, economics, social groups, and other community-based variables. Empirically supported treatments (aka evidence-based therapies) treatments that"ve been tested and evaluated using sound research designs.