Chapter 17 Introduction
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
Care as a Social Issue
- What to Do with Individuals with Severe Mental Disorders? A Brief History
- Structure of the Mental Health System
Biological Treatments
- Drugs
- Other Biologically Based Treatments
Psychotherapy I: Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies
- Principles of Psychodynamic Therapies
- Principles of Humanistic Therapy
Psychotherapy II: Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
- Principles of Cognitive Therapy
- A Case Example: Beck’s Cognitive Treatment of a Depressed Young Woman
- Principles of Behavior Therapy
- A Case Example: Miss Muffet Overcomes Her Spider Phobia
Evaluating Psychotherapies
- Is Psychotherapy Helpful, and Are Some Types of It More Helpful Than Others?
- The Role of Common Factors in Therapy Outcome
Reflections and Connections
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Throughout this book you have read of psychology as a science. Perhaps you have discovered that psychology is a vast, complex, fascinating, and sometimes frustrating science in which every finding generates far more questions than it answers. If your experience in reading this book has been anything like ours in writing it, your attitude right now may be one of respect for what psychologists have discovered, combined with awe for the amount that is yet to be learned.
But psychology is not just a science; it is also a practice. Practitioners in psychology attempt to apply psychological ideas and findings in ways designed to make life more satisfying for individuals or society as a whole. This last chapter is about clinical psychology, the field of practice and research that is directed toward helping people who suffer from psychological problems and disorders. In this chapter you will see how some of the basic knowledge of the brain, mind, and behavior that you have read about in previous chapters has been applied in efforts to help people in psychological need.
The chapter begins with a section on the social problem of providing care for individuals with severe mental disorders, and then it progresses through sections that deal with various biological and psychological treatments for mental disorders. The final section is concerned with questions about the effectiveness of psychotherapy.