PSYC 1004 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Active Listening, Aversion Therapy, Contingency Management
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Components of therapy therapeutic alliance: mutual respect: the relationship between the therapist and the client with total transparency types of therapists, counseling, clinical, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychiatric nurse practitioner, Md vs. phd vs. psyd vs. edd insight vs. behavior therapy: insight: psychotherapy in which the therapist helps the patient/client understand their problems, behavior therapy: the treatment of neurotic symptoms by training the patient"s. Freudian psychoanalysis reactions to stimuli: psychological problems arise from tension created in the unconscious mind by forbidden impulses and threatening memories, probing the unconscious, through free association veiled references to unconscious needs and conflicts, dream analysis & interpretation. Neo-freudian psychodynamic therapies: therapy for a mental disorder that was developed by psychodynamic theorists who embraced some of freuds ideas but disagreed with others life over early experiences, self/ego over id. Cognitive therapies: emphasizes rational thinking (as opposed to subjective emotion, motivation, or repressed conflicts) as the key to treating mental disorder, erroneous to rational thinking.
