Psychology – Chapter 16 – Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies – Flashcards
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Psychotherapy
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treatment involving psychological techniques : consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
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biomedical therapy
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prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology
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eclectric approach
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an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
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psychoanalysis
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sigmund freuds therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transference and the therapists interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight
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resistance
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in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
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interpretation
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in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and order to promote insight
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Transference
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In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
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Psychodynamic Therapy
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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight
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Insight Therapies
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A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses
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Client-centered Thearpy
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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, emphatic environment to facilitate client's growth
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Active Listening
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Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Roger's client-centered therapy.
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Unconditional positive regard
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A caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
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Behavior Therapy
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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
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Counterconditioning
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Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioing
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Exposure Therapies
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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
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Systematic Desensitization
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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias
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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
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Aversive Conditioning
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A type for counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
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Token Economy
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An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange their tokens for various privileges or treats
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Cognitive Therapy
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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy
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A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
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Group Therapy
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Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction
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Family Therapy
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Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
