AP Psychology Chapter 17 Vocab: Therapy – Flashcards
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Psychotherapy
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an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
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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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Eclectic Approach
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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
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Psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed that the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferances-and the therapists interpretation 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 other significant behaviors and events in 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 (such as love or hatred for a parent).
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Client-centered Therapy
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a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with 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. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.
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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 conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning.
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Exposure Therapies
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Behavior techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treats anxieties by exposing people to the thing they fear and avoid.
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Systematic Desensitization
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a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant and relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
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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 counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
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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 integrated 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. As influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family towards positive relationships and improved communication.
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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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Tardive Dyskinesia
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involuntary movement of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy
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a bio-medical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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the application of repeated impulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
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Psychosurgery
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surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
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Lobotomy
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A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
