PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 15 Psychological Therapies
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Psychological therapies treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively. Psychotherapy based primarily in psychological theory and techniques. Biomedical therapy therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem is treated with biological and medical methods of disorders. Insight therapy psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings. Action therapy psychotherapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly. Shock therapy is still used today for severe depression that other therapies did not help. If it were to happen then what: behavioral intervention exposing facing physical symptoms. Types of psychotherapy: psychotherapy outcome research weather treatment works, psychotherapy process research how treatments work. Therapy research is diffuculte: deciding who to include in a treatment study, comorbidity problem, operationalizing treatment, psychotherapy vs. pharmacotherapy. 4: how do you figure out if each piece of psychotherapy is.
