CBT and ACT
Ming Kan Leung2019-05-25T23:57:51-04:00Behavioral Therapy Emphasis on what can be seen, observed or measured Behavior is something that can be operationally defined- it includes overt actions as well as internal processes such [...]
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Family/Group Therapy
Ming Kan Leung2019-05-25T23:58:51-04:00The family systems perspective During the 1950s the systemic family therapy began to take root Individuals are best understood through assessing the interactions within an entire family. The development [...]
Person-Centered Therapy
Ming Kan Leung2019-05-25T23:59:33-04:00Carl Rogers Considered the founder of PCT He wanted to create climate, growth and choice. He believed that no one is necessarily evil Opposed institutionalization of therapy ‘schools’ as [...]
Mindfulness
Ming Kan Leung2019-05-26T00:00:05-04:00Autonomic NS response Stress activates the ANSàà fight or flight response - Activation of the F/F response results in: Increased blood flowàà increased blood pressure, heart rate, blood [...]
Existentialism/Gestalt
Ming Kan Leung2019-05-26T00:01:04-04:00Existentialism Existential therapy stems from existential philosophyàà what does it mean to exist? It is not a clearly defined model- has few techniques Emphasis on freedom choice Lots of [...]
Adlerian Theory
Ming Kan Leung2019-05-26T00:02:33-04:00Alfred Alder Member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society Proposed the aggression instinct Departed from psychoanalysis and founded the Society of Individual psychology Not as keen on the deterministic approach [...]
Psychoanalytic
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:33:47-04:00Freud Father of psychoanalysis His views continue to influence contemporary practice He experienced a number of severe emotional problems of his own and engaged in selfanalysis Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Freud’s [...]
Ethical Issues in Counselling
Ming Kan Leung2019-05-26T00:03:38-04:00Law VS ethics Law and ethics are not the same thing but obviously related If you practice ethically you wont break the law e.g. a psychologist can break confidentiality [...]
Effective Counsellor
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:33:49-04:00What is counselling? An interpersonal relationship between someone actively seeking help and someone willing to give help who is capable or trained too help in a setting that permits [...]
Theory of Mind Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:02-04:00Explain the concept of Theory of Mind. Describe different approaches to Theory of Mind and what they suggest about the way we understand others Theory of Mind The way [...]
Problem Solving and Expertise Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:03-04:00Discuss, with examples, the nature of well-defined knowledge-lean problems and ill-defined, knowledge-rich problems in terms of their relevance to real-world problem-solving Well-defined problems – all aspects of the problem [...]
Decision Making and Reasoning Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:04-04:00Explain the differences between normative and descriptive theories of decisionmaking Normative (Prescriptive) Theories of Decision Making How to make the best decision Hard and often impossible to use normative [...]
Language Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:04-04:00Describe how language may constrain the way we think, and how this might differ across languages Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Can we think without language? Does our language determine the way [...]
Consciousness and Emotion Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:05-04:00What are consciousness and emotion? Consciousness hard to explain – it's private, intrinsic, directly apprehended, indescribable Perceiving the environment Social communication and action Controlling actions Planning and reasoning [...]
Memory 3 – Frontiers of Memory Research, “Real Life” Memory Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:06-04:00Autobiographical memory: Outline the self-memory system model Autobiographical Memory Properties: Events of personal significance Complex events Extends over many years Involves some semantic content - More sensitive to [...]
Memory 2 – The Informational and Neuroanatomical Structure of Long Term Memory Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:06-04:00Identify key brain structures critical to memory function and give some of the evidence supporting their involvement Brain Structures Critical to Memory Function Temporal love Medial temporal lobe Perirhinal [...]
Memory 1 – Memory Architecture Encoding, and Retrieval Effects, Forgetting Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:07-04:00Explain the concept of memory architecture with reference to the multi-store, unitary store, and working memory models of memory, outlining laboratory and neuroscience evidence for these models Atkinson and [...]
Attention Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:08-04:00Describe three (3) early models of attention. What are the important differences between them? What types of experiments have identified strengths and weaknesses in these models? Broadbent’s Filter Model [...]
Perception 2 Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:09-04:00Describe the concept of perceptual organisation. Explain how the Gestalt laws and other theories attempt to account for object perception Perceptual Organization Perceptual segregation: Separating visual input into [...]
Perception 1 Learning Objectives
Ming Kan Leung2018-09-18T18:12:10-04:00Describe the structure and function of the visual pathway from stimulus through to visual representation From Eye to Cortex Reception - absorption of physical energy Transduction - Physical energy [...]
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