Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Muscle Relaxant, Clozapine, Behavior Modification
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Categories of medical health professionals: counseling and clinical psychologists, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker, marriage and family counselor, pastoral counselor, abuse counselor. Focus on internal conflict and unconscious factor. Goal help achieve insight: insight allows to adjust behavior and current life situations. Redirects the psychic energy devoted to keeping unconscious conflict under control to more adaptive ways of living. Free association: trying to find clues in a constant stream of thoughts, memories, feelings, and images, lie on couch and just talk. Psychologist sits away so client cant see him. Dream interpretation: believed dreams express unconscious, helps client search for unconscious material in dreams. Resistance: defensive maneuvers that hinder process of therapy, sign that anxiety-arousing material is being approached, important task for analysis is to explore the reason for resistance, provide insight and prevent them from dropping out. Transference: occurs when client responds as though analyst is an important figure from past, most important process.