PSYC 4061 Lecture 2: Lecture 2

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4061
• Professor: Ami Rokach

Document Summary

What is counselling? profession with ethical guidelines that works with people with difficulties (adjustment/development) individual and group format; is multidimensional because deals with feelings, thoughts, and behaviour. Finally found therapist who got into her world and found that after birth she had post-partum depression and was suicidal. Phobia of heights developed to save her life and prevent jumping: so we see that every dysfunction is functional, writer"s cramp is when hand functions normally but cannot write. Found that this boy was afraid of going to university but could not tell his parents since was their only child. Seligman"s learned helplessness is when feel you have to do something even if do not want to; therapy gives you back that choice. When something is right for you, it burns in you. Established ground rules and said you cannot hit your wife, even though that was imposing morals.