1. Therapies

2. Psychotherapy
A systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that brings psychological principles to bear on a client’s thoughts, feelings, or behavior to help the client overcome abnormal behavior (or to adjust to problems in living)

3. Different Types of Therapists
Psychologist
Counselor
Psychiatrist
Psychiatric Social Worker
Psychoanalyst

4. Who Goes to Therapy? People with psychological disorders
People who want to learn about themselves
People with regular problems
(weight loss, depression, shyness)

5. Insight Therapies Traditional Psychoanalysis Client Centered Therapy
Cognitive Therapies
Group therapies
Involves verbal interactions intended to enhance a client’s self knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior.

6. Psychoanalysis
Insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses though techniques such as free association, dream analysis, and transference.
*free association
*dream analysis
*transference (countertransference)

7. Modern vs. Traditional Psychoanalysis
1-2x weekly
“face to face”
Problem resolution
Active & directive
Supportive, educational, and less intense
4-5x weekly
“couch therapy”
Reconstruct character
Free association, transference, and resistance

8. Client Centered Therapy
Carl Rogers’ insight thereapy that emphasizes providing a supportive meotional climate for clients who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of the therapy.
Unconditional positive regard
Empathic understanding
Genuineness
Congruence

9. Cognitive Therapies
Forms of Therapy that focus on how clients’ cognitions lead to distress and may be modified to relieve distress. Improve a person’s well being by changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs
Albert Ellis: Rational Emotive therapy
Aaron Beck: Cognitive Therapy
Problem Solving Training

10. Advantages of Group Therapies
Cheaper
Able to hear experiences of others
Group support
Similarity
Improvement happens
Social skills

11. Behavior Therapies
Behavior is a product of learning and what is learned can be unlearned.
Fear Reduction Methods
Aversive conditioning
Operant Conditioning
token economies
biofeedback

12. Biomedical Therapies Drug Therapy Anti-anxiety anti-psychotic
antidepressants
lithium
Electroconvulsive Therapies
Psychosurgery