CCP Intro To Psychology Chapter 13 Flashcards
An area of psychology that integrates science and theory to prevent and treat psychological disorders.
Clinical psychology
a trained professional engaging in an interpersonal relationship with someone who is suffering
Psychotherapy
views psychological disorders as akin to diseases requiring specific treatment, specifically medications
Biological approach to therapy
a medical doctor (an M.D. or D.O.) who specializes in mental health, including substance use disorders
Psychiatrist
view the person as part of a system of relationships that are influenced by social and cultural factors.
Sociocultural approach to therapy
Treatments that acknowledge the relationships, roles, and cultural contexts that characterize an individual’s life, often bringing them into the therapeutic context.
Sociocultural therapy
aims to maximize the effectiveness of psychological interventions through adherence to principles informed by empirical findings
Evidence based practice
the relationship between a healthcare professional and a client or patient.
Therapeutic alliance
Freud’s therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual’s unconscious thoughts.
Psychoanalysis
A psychoanalytic technique that involves encouraging individuals to say aloud whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Free association
A psychoanalytic technique for interpreting a person’s dreams.
Dream analysis
A client’s relating to the psychoanalyst in ways that reproduce or relive important relationships in the client’s life.
Transference
A client’s unconscious defense strategies that prevent the person from gaining insight into their psychological problems.
Resistance
Treatments that uniquely emphasize people’s self-healing capacities and that encourage clients to understand themselves and to grow personally.
Humanistic therapies
Client-centered therapy
Client-centered therapy
A technique in which the therapist mirrors the client’s own feelings back to the client.
Reflective speech
A feeling of oneness with the emotional state of another person.
Empathy
Rogers’s construct referring to the individual’s need to be accepted, valued, and treated positively regardless of their behavior.
Unconditional positive regard
being open with one’s feelings and dropping all pretenses and facades
Genuineness
Treatments, based on behavioral and social cognitive theories, that use principles of learning to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior.
Behavior therapies
A behavior therapy that treats anxiety by teaching the client to associate deep relaxation with increasingly intense anxiety-producing situations.
Systematic desensitization
a general concept for changing a pattern of thought that is presumed to be causing maladaptive behavior or emotions
Cognitive restructuring
A therapy that combines cognitive therapy and behavior therapy with the goal of developing the client’s self-efficacy.
Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)
a combination of techniques from different therapies based on the therapist’s judgment of which particular methods will provide the greatest benefit for the client.
Integrative therapy
