Exam 3 Flashcards
Contribute to psychology’s appreciation for social relationships (beyond just the parent-child relationship)
Harry Stack Sullivan
Who founded interpersonal psychoanalysis, which created interpersonal therapy?
Harry Stack Sullivan
One of the first rigorous studies of mental health treatment effectiveness
Psychopharmacology study with randomized control trial, treatment manual for control condition (Weissman), relying on CBT manual structures and interpersonal and attachment theories
The two people involved in the mental health treatment effectiveness
Investigator Gerald Klerman & Social Worker Myrna Weissman
Sources of integration?
Relational psychodynamic and attachment theories, common factors, psycho-biological theories
Psychodynamic theory premise?
Early relationships and experiences that give unconscious perceptions and reactions to current relationships
Psychodynamic theory therapy?
Focus on the “there and then” , and work to make the unconscious conscious with insight . Looks at transference as a rehashing of those earlier factors and sees the therapist as a blank slate
Interpersonal theory premis?
Early and recent relationships were from availability or effective use of supportive relationships or coping resources
Interpersonal theory therapy
Focus on current problems and behaviors that are effecting the patients well being or here and now, focusing on the changeable