Psychology
Associate Level Material
Appendix C
Psychotherapy Matrix
Directions: Review Module 36 of Psychology and Your Life. Select three approaches to summarize. Include examples of the types of psychological disorders appropriate for each therapy.
|{Psychodynamic Approaches To Therapy} |{Behavioral Approaches To Therapy } |{Cognitive Approaches to Therapy} |
|Summary of |Shortest approach, lasts about 20 sessions and no longer |Aversive conditioning is therapy |Cognitive therapy changes the thought patterns that lead |
|Approach |than 3 months, the therapist controls the course of the |that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by |to getting stuck in dysfunctional ways of thinking. |
| |therapy and advises the patient with considerable |pairing an aversive stimulus with undesired behavior. |Rational-emotive behavior therapy, attempts to restructure|
| |directness. The therapist also puts less emphasis on the |Systematic Desensitization is therapy with the exposure to|a person’s belief system into a more realistic, rational, |
| |patient’s past, and childhood history, they concentrate |an anxiety producing stimulus and paired with relaxation |and logical set of views. Beck’s cognitive therapy aims |
| |mainly on the patient’s current relationships and specific|to extinguish the response of anxiety. Exposure is a |to change people’s illogical thoughts about themselves and|
| |complaints. |behavioral treatment for anxiety in which people are |the world. |
| | |confronted, either suddenly or gradually, with a stimulus | |
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Appendix C
Psychotherapy Matrix
Directions: Review Module 36 of Psychology and Your Life. Select three approaches to summarize. Include examples of the types of psychological disorders appropriate for each therapy.
|{Psychodynamic Approaches To Therapy} |{Behavioral Approaches To Therapy } |{Cognitive Approaches to Therapy} |
|Summary of |Shortest approach, lasts about 20 sessions and no longer |Aversive conditioning is therapy |Cognitive therapy changes the thought patterns that lead |
|Approach |than 3 months, the therapist controls the course of the |that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by |to getting stuck in dysfunctional ways of thinking. |
| |therapy and advises the patient with considerable |pairing an aversive stimulus with undesired behavior. |Rational-emotive behavior therapy, attempts to restructure|
| |directness. The therapist also puts less emphasis on the |Systematic Desensitization is therapy with the exposure to|a person’s belief system into a more realistic, rational, |
| |patient’s past, and childhood history, they concentrate |an anxiety producing stimulus and paired with relaxation |and logical set of views. Beck’s cognitive therapy aims |
| |mainly on the patient’s current relationships and specific|to extinguish the response of anxiety. Exposure is a |to change people’s illogical thoughts about themselves and|
| |complaints. |behavioral treatment for anxiety in which people are |the world. |
| | |confronted, either suddenly or gradually, with a stimulus | |
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