PS101 Chapter 15: Chapter 15.docx
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Treatments: how many are there: as varied as therapists" procedures are, approaches to treatment can be classified into 3 major categories: Insight therapies: aka the talk therapy. clients engage in complex verbal interactions with their therapists. The goal in these discussions is to pursue increased insight regarding the nature of the client"s difficulties and to sort through possible solutions. They use different procedure for different kinds of problems. Most of their procedures involve classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning: biomedical therapies: involves interventions into a person"s biological functioning. The most widely used procedures are drug therapy and electroconvulsive (shock) therapy. In the therapeutic triad (therapists, treatments, clients), the greatest diversity of all is seen among the clients. People bring to therapy the full range of human problems: anxiety, depression, unsatisfactory interpersonal relationships, troublesome habits, poor self-control, low self-esteem, marital conflicts, self-doubt, a sense of emptiness, and feelings of personal stagnation.
