ch. 16 Therapy

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psychotherapy

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uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome difficulties and achieve personal growth

Question 2

biomedical therapy

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offers medication and other biological treatment. (E.g- antidepressants, deep brain stimulation)

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eclectic

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blend of therapies

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Who came up with psychoanalysis?

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Freud

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goal of psychoanalysis?

Answer 5

Help bring out repressed feelings into conscious awareness, which could help them reduce growth-impeding inner conflicts

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free association

Answer 6

patient says whatever comes to mind, and the analyst will note any resistance and provide insight into its meaning.

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Psychoanalysis is not widely used because?

Answer 7

Most of it is not supported by scientific research.

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What was influenced by Freud’s psychoanalysis?

Answer 8

Psychodynamic therapy

Question 9

Psychodynamic therapy

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help people gain insight into unconscious dynamics that arise from their life experience.

Question 10

humanistic perspective

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emphasizes people’s innate potential for self-fulfillment

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psychodynamic and humanistic therapies are AKA?

Answer 11

insight therapies

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What are some ways humanistic therapies differ from psychodynamic therapies?

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• promotes self growth, not curing illness.
• conscious thoughts are more important that unconscious thoughts.
• present/future more important than past.

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Who used humanistic techniques to develop Person-Centered Therapy?

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Carl Rogers

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person centered therapy

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the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth.

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Roger’s belied the most important contribution is to?

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accept and understand the client

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Psychodynamic therapists expect people’s problems to diminish as?

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they gain insight into their unresolved and unconscious tensions.

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Humanistic therapists expect problems to diminish as?

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people get in touch with their feelings.

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Behavior therapists doubted that?

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healing power results from self-awareness.

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Counterconditioning

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pairs the trigger stimulus with a new response that is incompatible with fear.
(exposure therapies)

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Joseph Wolpe redefined Jone’s counterconditioming technique into the?

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exposure therapies

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exposure therapies

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change people’s reactions by repeatedly exposing them to stimuli to trigger an unwanted response. Eventually, the person adapts.

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systematic desensitization

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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat specific phobias.

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virtual reality exposure therapy

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a counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears.

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psychopharmacology

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use of medication to treat psychological disorders

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humanistic therapy

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focus on inherent potential for self actualization

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humanistic therapy focuses on?

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the present/future, not past

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humanistic therapy examines?

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relationships in the clients life

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client centered therapy

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therapists use techniques such as active listening with a genuine, accepting, and empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth

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active listening

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paraphrasing, invite clarification, reflect feelings

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self disclosure

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therapist reveals aspects of their own feelings/experiences as a way of helping their client

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behavior therapy

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applies learning principles to modify behavior

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behavior theory focuses on?

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only on observable behavior, not on WHY a disorder occurs

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examples of things treated with behavior therapy

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phobias, children

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operant conditioning in behavior therapy?

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reinforcement and punishment can be utilized to either increase or decrease the frequency of a behavior

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classical conditioning in behavior therapy?

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pairing a previously neutral stimulus (such as the sound of a bell) with an unconditioned stimulus (the taste of food)

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exposure therapy

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try to change people’s reactions by repeatedly exposing them to stimuli that trigger unwanted reactions.

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systematic desensitization

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associate a pleasant relaxed state with a gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli

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what is the most effective treatment for phobias?

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systematic desensitization

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flooding/exposure

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expose clients to a feared stimuli all at once

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aversive conditioning

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associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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cognitive therapy

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focus on replacing irrational beliefs/ negative thinking with more rational/positive ways of thinking

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ABC model

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Activating, Belief, Consequences

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cognitive behavior therapy

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simultaneously challenge irrational beliefs and works on problematic behaviors.

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group therapy

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people with similar issues meet together (often led by therapist)