Answer to Question #258201 in Psychology for mmeli

Question

describe the different approaches towards treating phychopathology which became available during the twentieth century

Answer 1

Pharmacotherapy with SSRIs and innovative cognitive-behavioral approaches like PE (prolonged exposure treatment), SIT (stress inoculation training), and EMDR are the most promising treatments (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing). In terms of psychotherapy, there have been heated debates on how genuine recovered traumatic memories are and how to deal with them. Regardless of these disagreements, establishing an empathic therapeutic contact with patients is critical.