13- Treatment of Psychological Disorders Flashcards
treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
psychotherapy
an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
eclectic growth
Freud’s therapeutic techniques; designed to release previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self-insight; assumed problem is unconscious forces and childhood experiences; uses analysis and interpretation
psychoanalysis
relaxation; the therapist sits out of sight and waits for you to say what comes to mind
free association
the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
resistance
the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
interpretation
suggesting a dream meaning after hearing the dream
dream analysis
the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
transference
therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight; addresses current issues through childhood events
psychodynamic therapy
a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses; focus on the present instead of the past, conscious rather than unconscious, taking immediate responsibility, and promoting growth instead of curing
insight therapies
a humanistic therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client’s growth; assumed problem is barriers to self-understanding and self-acceptance
client-centered therapy
empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
active listening
a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
unconditional positive regard
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
behavior therapy
a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
counterconditioning
behavior techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
exposure therapy
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; used to treat phobias
systematic desensitization
an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears
virtual reality exposure therapy
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
aversive conditioning
trying to change behavior; using reinforcement, punishment, or ignoring to shape behaviors
behavior modification
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
token economy
therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; assumed problem is negative, self-defeating thinking; aims to reveal and reverse self-blaming
cognitive therapy
one miniscule negative belief changes into a lot of negative beliefs
catastrophizing beliefs that are a part of Beck’s therapy for depression
a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
cognitive-behavioral therapy
