AP Psychology Therapy Unit – 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 & achieve personal growth
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Eclectic Approach
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Using a blend of therapies
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Psychoanalysis
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Freud's believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- 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 analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
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Transference
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In psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
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Psychodynamic therapy
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Try to understand a patients current symptoms by focusing on themes across important relationships, including childhood experiences and the therapist relationship
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Insight therapies
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A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses
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Client-centered Therapy
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A humanistic therapy, developed by Rogers, in which the therapist used techniques such as active listening wishing a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth
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Active listening
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Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
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Unconditional Positive Regard
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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Rogers believed to be conducive to developing 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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A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; including exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
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Exposure Therapy
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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, 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 associated a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. -used to treat phobias
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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to 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 of 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 the 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 and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
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A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
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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.
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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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Regression toward the mean
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The tendency for unusual events to regress to their average state
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Meta-Analysis
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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
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Evidence-Based Practice
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Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
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Biomedical Therapy
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Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system
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Psychopharmacology
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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
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Antipsychotic Drugs
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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders
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Tardive Dyskinesia
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Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long term use of antipsychotic drugs that target dopamine receptors
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Anti-anxiety Drugs
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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
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Antidepressant Drugs
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Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability for various neurotransmitters
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which s brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
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The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress activity
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Psychosurgery
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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissues in an effort to change behavior
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Lobotomy
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A rare psychosurgical procedure once used to cal uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
