Cognitive Approaches to Treatment

Defining Abnormality

Psychodynamic Approaches to Therapy

Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Therapy

Contemporary Alternatives to Psychoanalysis

Behavioral Approaches to Therapy

Aversive Conditioning

Cognitive Approaches to Therapy

Key concepts for Module 40:

Define psychotherapy and identify the main approaches/types.

Describe the psychodynamic approach to the treatment of abnormal behavior, including the major techniques and concepts employed by psychodynamic therapists.

Describe the behavioral approaches to the treatment of abnormal behavior, including aversive conditioning, systematic desensitization, observational learning, and the use of operant conditioning principles.

Discuss the cognitive therapy approaches of rational-emotive and cognitive therapy.