Aaron Jennings Chapter 13 Vocab Flashcards
Treatment involving psychological techniques consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychotherapy
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Transference
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that use individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight
Psychodynamic therapy
If variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Insight therapies
A humanistic therapy, derived by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with in genuine, excepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth
Client centered therapy
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. The future of Rogers client centered therapy
Active listening
A caring, excepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed it 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; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization,that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
Systematic desensitization
And anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears
Virtual-reality exposure therapy
A type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Aversive conditioning
In operant conditioning procedure in which people learn 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; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Cognitive therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Therapy the treats the family of the system. Use and individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
Family therapy
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average
Regression towards the mean
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Meta-analysis
Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
Evidence-based practice
Prescribed medications or medical procedures the actor directly on the patients nervous system
Biomedical therapy
