Understanding Psychology (10th Ed)

Psychotherapy: Humanistic, 
Interpersonal, and Group 
Approaches to Treatment
Humanistic Therapy
PsychWork:
Case Manager and 
Substance Abuse Counselor
Interpersonal Therapy
Group Therapy, Family Therapy, 
and Self-Help Groups
Evaluating Psychotherapy: 
Does Therapy Work?
Exploring Diversity:
Racial and Ethnic 
Factors in Treatment: Should 
Therapists Be Color Blind?
Biomedical Therapy: Biological 
Approaches to Treatment
Drug Therapy
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT )
Psychosurgery
Biomedical Therapies in Perspective
Community Psychology: 
Focus on Prevention
Applying Psychology in the 21st Century:
Beating the Odds: Preventing 
Psychological Disorders Before They Start
Becoming an Informed 
Consumer of Psychology:
 
Choosing the Right Therapist
What are the humanistic approaches to 
treatment?
● 
What is interpersonal therapy?
● 
How does group therapy diff er from individual 
types of therapy?
● 
How eff ective is psychotherapy, 
and which kind of psychotherapy works best in a 
given situation?
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 Prologue
Taking on Tourette’s
Marg MacKrell was just three when her parents noticed the fi rst 
signs of what turned out to be Tourette syndrome. The blond 
toddler began sniffi
ng her fi ngers repeatedly, and over the next 
six years, her uncontrolled tics came to include clicking, whirring 
and scrunching her nose. Her condition was manageable until 
last year, when, at the age of 9, she began to suff er about 60 
episodes a day of repeated head jerks that left her sore and spent 
by nighttime. 
So when MacKrell’s parents learned about an old but little-
used therapy called habit-reversal training (HRT), they decided 
to try it. Last November, Marg started learning new ways to 
pre-empt her most severe tics at the Child and Family Study 
Center at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. When 
she felt a head jerk coming on, she was taught to drop her head 
and stare at the second hand on her watch for a minute. “Soon 
the head jerking was down by 90 percent,” says Marg’s mother, 
Diane MacKrell. “I couldn’t believe it.” (Skipp & Campo-Flores, 
2007, p. 53) 

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