ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
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discouraging people from using antidepressant drugs
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using progressive relaxation to reduce anxiety
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increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
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using personality tests to accurately diagnose the person’s difficulties
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Detailed explanation-1: -Insight Therapies are a variety of therapies aimed to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defense. Humanistic and psycho-dynamic therapies are often referred to as Insight Therapies. What is the major goal of psychoanalysis?
Detailed explanation-2: -any form of psychotherapy based on the theory that a client’s problems cannot be resolved without his or her gaining self-understanding and thus becoming aware of their origins.
Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose of insight therapy is to facilitate insight in clients about their past and present psychological and behavioral functioning. The aim is to bring unconscious ideas and beliefs into consciousness.
Detailed explanation-4: -Insight therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by changing behaviors and thought patterns. The therapeutic value of insight and self-awareness is emphasized by cognitive therapies.
Detailed explanation-5: -Most research sources refer to four types of insight therapy. These include psychoanalysis, cognitive therapies, humanistic therapies and group, family, and marital therapies.