13 Key Terms Flashcards
Eclectic approach
An approach to psychotherapy that depending on client problems
Uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques, consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Believe patients free associations, resistances, dreams, transferences, and the therapists interpretations released previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self insight
Resistance
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis
The analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behavior and events in order to promote insight
Transference
In psychoanalysis
The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships like hatred for a parent
Psychodynamic therapy
Therapy that views individuals as responding t unconscious forces and childhood experiences and that seeks to enhance self insight
Insight therapies
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness underlying of underlying motives and defenses
Client centered therapy
A humanistic therapy by carl rogers
Therapist uses techniques such as active listening with genuine accepting empathetic environment to facilitate the clients
growth
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes restates and clarifies
Part of client centered therapy
Unconditional positive regard
A caring accepting nonjudgmental attitude which Carl rogers beloved would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance
Behavior therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles that the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Counterconditioning
A therapy behavior procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behavior
Exposure therapies
Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear or avoid
Systematic desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli, used to treat phobias
Virtual reality exposure therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears such as airplane flying spiders or public speaking
Aversive conditioning
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (alcohol)
Token economy
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
Cognitive therapy
Therapy that teaches people new more adaptive ways of thinking as acting based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Cognitive behavioral therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Family therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influences by or directed at other family members
Regression toward the mean
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
Meta analysis
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Evidence based practice
Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system
Psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Antipsychotic drugs
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
Tardive dyskinsia
Involuntary muscle movements of facial muscles, tongue, and limbs
Possible neurotoxic side effect of long term use for f antipsychotic drugs that target dopamine receptors
Anti anxiety drugs
Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
Antidepressant drugs
Drugs used to treat depression also increasingly prescribed for anxiety.
Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
rTMS
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
Psychosurgery
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
Lobotomy
A now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connect the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain
Resilience
The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
Examples of anti anxiety
Xanax and activism
Anti depressants
Increase levels of serotonin and norepinephrine
Slow reuputake SSRI
Mood stabilizing
Lithium
For bipolar
Depakote
