PSY343 - 11. Review Flashcards
What is psychotherapy?
conflict: anxiety caused by tension
distress
self-defined movement
What is psychotherapy?
reducing habit, automaticity, patterns stuck in
more choice in how we think, act
gain awareness
collaborative process
Why do you think psychotherapy works?
expectations
disrupt patterned thinking
given opportunity to see perspective
give shape and meaning to experiences
How does the therapeutic relationship drive outcomes?
needs for attachment
emphasis on independence
creating a healthy dependency
How does the therapeutic relationship drive outcomes?
Historical + social context of psychological theories and therapies
historical: specific times and places it emerged
types of theories, diagnoses changes based on context
How does the therapeutic relationship drive outcomes?
-• The relaFonship between theories of psychopathology and treatment approaches
we can’t treat something for something we don’t have a model of understanding
theory of problem - theory of treatment
theory of personality - theory of psychotherapy
Explicit themes from the course
• Specific theories of change vs general principals of change (e.g., common factors)
specific therapy approach matters too
matching matters
Explicit themes from the course
common factors drive outcome
need to understand them and apply all of them during practice
Explicit themes from the course
• importance of both process + content in psychotherapy
process + content
what does transformation look like?
we have to look for it
Explicit themes from the course
Using research to guide clinical practice
we want research to be empirically driven
but sometimes we have to go with intuitive understanding
tension between knowledge from research and knowledge from experience
Implicit themes from the course
-Thinking deeply + broadly
understanding subject thoroughly and going beyond concept
get breadth and depth
Implicit themes from the course
Being flexible: difficult, have to be structured as a student
limiting if we get trapped
thinking through ideas, new ideas, new behaviours
Implicit themes from the course
-• Balancing science and art; theory and pracFce therapy is an art and a science want to turn psychology into a science before it was a philosophy takes away richness it is untrue
Implicit themes from the course
-humans are too complex, but we cannot get an absolute truth
can’t measure humans like other scientific phenomenons
there’s theoretical structures, but have to drop it in order to relate to others
Implicit themes from the course
• Developing self-awareness
psychology is not separate from us
reflective process and academic pursuit
dynamic relationship between 2 process
