Clinical Unit

People:

Aaron Beck: Created cognitive-behavioral therapy, which combines aspects of both cognitive and behavioral therapy to challenge faulty thinking and change maladaptivecbehaviors

Albert Ellis: Created rational-emotive behavior therapy, a form of talk therapy that emphasizes reducing negative reactions through confrontation of internal voices, examination of irrational mental beliefs, and logical analysis of feelings

Sigmund Freud: Created psychoanalysis, a form of talk therapy that emphasizes unconscious experiences

Mary Cover Jones: Developed the process of curing phobias using desensitization Carl Rogers Created client-centered therapy, a form of talk therapy that focuses on the unconditional positive regard of clients. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the capacity of every client to achieve self-actualization.

B.F. Skinner: Worked in operant conditioning, which informed behavioral therapy

Joseph Wolpe: Focused on systematic desensitization as a method of treating phobias or anxiety disorders. Systematic desensitization uses relaxation and then exposure to anxiety-producing stimuli to replace the phobic response with a conditioned calm response.

DSM-5

Medical Model: Assumes disorders are mental illnesses with physical causes that can be cured through therapy.

Biopsychosocial Approach

Assumes Biological, Psychological(stress, trauma, learned helplessness, mood),

Sociocultural(roles, expectations) interact to produce disorders