Crash Course Psychology #35: Getting Help - Psychotherapy

Identify and describe the four major schools of psychotherapy: psychodynamic, existential-humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive

Explain specific therapy techniques within each school, such as free association, client-centered therapy, counter-conditioning, and cognitive restructuring

Describe how group therapy and family therapy differ from individual therapy approaches

Have students watch the linked episode and answer questions in order, since the worksheet moves school-by-school (psychodynamic, then existential-humanistic, then behavioral, then cognitive) before covering group and family therapy

Use question 4 (psychoanalysis vs. psychodynamic therapy) as a checkpoint, since it's the worksheet's first direct compare-and-contrast question

Pair questions 9-11 (behavior therapy techniques) for a mini-discussion on how counter-conditioning, aversive conditioning, and exposure therapy differ in method but share a behaviorist foundation

The included answer key allows this to be assigned as independent viewing homework, with class time reserved for discussion

Video-based note-taking — students extract specific facts and definitions from Episode 35 to answer 15 short-answer questions on the four schools of psychotherapy.

Concept classification — students identify which of the four major schools of psychotherapy a given technique or therapist belongs to.

Comparative analysis — students distinguish related concepts such as psychoanalysis vs. psychodynamic therapy, and aversive conditioning vs. exposure therapy.