Download Comparing Therapeutic Approaches: Medical, Behavioral, Humanistic, and CBT - Prof. E. Gell and more Study notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Therapy Medical or Disease Model (The Psychiatrist): - 1. Assumptions: o All behavior has underlying meaning o Explain with hypothetical constructs o Symptom reflects underlying cause o Symptom substitution Same symptom with different causes Different symptoms with the same cause o Diagnostic Labelling o GIVE INSIGHT CHANGE BEHAVIOR - 2. Therapy: o Professionalism o Blame placed on disease o Patient admits incompetence o Rapport emphasize o Insight development Behavioral Model (The Behavioral Therapist): - 1. Assumptions: o No need to go beyond overt behavior o Only observables (little inference) o Attack the symptom o All behavior is learned o Diagnostic Labeling (Human Skinner Box Perspective) o CHANGE BEHAVIOR CHANGE FEELING - 2. Therapy: o Behavior managers o Blame placed on environment o Protégé assumes responsibility o Rapport not necessary o Insight not necessary - 3. General Clinical Approach: o What behavior is maladaptive? o What are supporting contingences? o What contingencies can be re-arranged? DO-IT Process: Define- behavior(s) to target Observe- to collect baseline data Intervene- to influence target behavior(s) Test- to measure impact Humanistic Therapies (The Client-Centered Counselor): - 1. Assumptions: o Phenomenology; idiologic o Unobservables Intentionality, Creativity o Internal, subjective & Experiential o Man is innately good (Carl Rogers) o One basic drive To maintain, enhance, actualize SELF o Self concept Organizing principle of experience - 2. Therapy: o Unconditional positive regard o Rapport: nonthreatening, safe, trusting, free, EMPATHY o Client Centered o Counselor= passive catalyst o Real vs. ideal self o Sensitivity, encounter, marathon groups Key Terms: - Insight Therapies o Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud Unconscious motives, free association, dream analysis, resistance, transference - Humanistic Therapies o Client-centered therapy: Carl Rogers o Empathy, unconditional positive regard o Real vs. Ideal Self - Behavior therapies o Exposure treatments o Systematic desensitization o Flooding & implosive therapy*- extinguishing the response to the stimulus that scares you If you’re afraid of drowning, your therapist wants you to imagine drowning and feeling all the things that come along with it - Cognitive Behavioral Therapies o Irrational Assumptions It is a necessity for an adult to be loved and approved by almost everyone for virtually everything A person must be thoroughly competent, adequate, and successful in all respects It is catastrophic when things are not going the way one would like
