APSY-UE 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Individuation, Polypharmacy, Reciprocal Inhibition
2 Dec 2016
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Psychotherapy: psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives. Women are more likely than men to seek treatment. Caucasian americans are more likely to seek mental health services. Those whose insurance plan has mental health coverage are more likely. Paraprofessionals: helpers who have no formal professional training, often provide psychological services in such settings as crisis intervention centers and other social service agencies. Professional helpers understand how to operate effectively within the mental health system, appreciate complex, ethical, professional, and personal issues, and can select treatments of demonstrated effectiveness. Insight therapies: psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight. Psychodynamic therapies: treatments inspired by classical psychoanalysis and influenced by freud"s techniques. Humanistic therapies: share an emphasis on insight, self-actualization, and the belief that human nature is basically positive. Psychodynamic therapists share the three approaches and beliefs:
