CHAPTER 16 [1ST HALF]

The Element of the Treatment Process

1: Note...1987-Jeffery Zeig states the following about an important convention in which leaders from the psychotherapy community were brought together. "I do not believe there is any capsule definition of psychotherapy on which the 26 presenters could aggree."

2: Clients: Who Seeks Therapy?

• 1999 Surgeon General report states about 15% of people in the US use mental health services
• Delay is treatment is usually in terms of years
• Can be delayed b/c of lackof insurance, high costs, or being associated with the label of a "mental health patient"

3: Psychologists--specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems". (Must earn Doctorate Degree)

4: Psychiatrisits--"physicians who specialize in the treatment of physchological disorders." (Must earn MedicalDegree)

Insight Therapies

5: Insight Therapy is "talk therapy" and can be helpful to during group therapy or individual therapy. The disscussions are used to gain"insight"to the patient's "difficulties" and help them find resolution. After the therapist "probes the unconscious" he/she will then interpret and explain the "significance of the client's thoughts"

6: Psychoanalysis is a technique developed by Sigmund Freud and "emphasizes the recovery of uncounscious conflicts, motives and such defenses through free association, dream analysis and tranference".

7: Group Therapy is the treatment of several clients "simultaneously". Group therapy offers a safe social environment, and support system of peers.

Behavior Therapies

8: Behavioral therapies are "based on the principle of learning and condidtioning". Here the main goal is to adjust "problematic responses and maladaptie habits". There are many types of behavioral therapies and they include: systematic desensitization, social skills training and cognitive-behavioral treatments.

9: Systematic Desensitization is used to "reduce clients' anxiety through coounter-conditioning" in order to weaken the reaction between a "condidtioned" stimulus and "condidtioned" reaction.

10: Aaron Beck's idea on depression states that he believed depression is caused by "certain patterns of negative thinking" and thus formulated "cognitive therapy". Cognitive therapy attempts to "correct habitual thinking errors. These "thinking errors" were believed to be the causes of a range of disorders.