PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: On Being, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Participant Observation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Medication therapy (usually just get them on drugs) Behavioural in that a behaviour is being done. Cognitive in that thoughts are trying to be controlled by thinking peaceful, calming thoughts. Cognitive behavioural therapy: trying to get people to engage in behaviours that will help them out, while at the same time utilizing their thoughts as a way to encourage and develop those behaviours. Usually treated with a combination of drug therapy and cognitive therapy. Mood disorders and major depressive disorders are usually treated with both medication and. Remember that the critical issue for depressed people in their thinking is that they tend to make a catastrophe of all the events in their lives. Focuses on the thoughts that depressed people have. 15% to 20% of the people seeking therapy are experiencing major depression. In the 40s and 50s this type of therapy was used as a punishment; as a way to control patients in the mental hospitals.