Psychology: Psychological Therapies

Explores a wide variety of treatments and ethical issues. the different types of disorders and prevalence, and how professionals decided what kind of disorder it is. historical and modern approaches to the treatment of disorders and discusses the effectiveness of modern treatment. 

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  1. treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively.
  1. Therapy
  1. therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional.
  1. Psychotherapy
  1. psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
  1. Insight therapies
  1. psychotherapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly.
  1. Action therapy
  1. therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem is treated with biological or medical methods to relieve symptoms.
  1. Biomedical therapy
  1. Mentally ill people began to be confined to institutions called _____ in the mid-1500s.
  1. asylums
  1. Treatments were _____ and often _____.
  1. harsh and often damaging
  1. Who became famous for demanding that the mentally ill be treated with kindness, personally unlocking the chains of inmates in France?
  1. Philippe Pinel
  1. an insight therapy based on the theory of Freud, emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts.
  1. Psychoanalysis
  1. In Dream interpretation what two contents are there?
  1. Manifest and Latent
  1. the actual content of one’s dream.
  1. Manifest content
  1. the symbolic or hidden meaning of dreams.
Latent content
  1. Freudian technique in which a patient was encouraged to talk about anything that came to mind without fear of negative evaluations.
  1. Free association
  1. occurring when a patient becomes reluctant to talk about a certain topic, either changing the subject or becoming silent.
  1. Resistance
  1. in psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.
  1. Transference