Ch. 17 (therapy) Flashcards
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed meds or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system
Psychotherapy
An emotional charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Eclectic approach
Approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Psychoanalysis
Patients face association, resistance, dreams & the therapy’s interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings. Allowing the patient to gain self insight
Sigmund Freud
Developed psychoanalysis (1st psychological therapy), many psychological problems are fueled by childhoods residue of repressed impulses and conflicts
Free association
Mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another w/o any apparent connection
Resistance
Blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Interpretation
Analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, & other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight
Carl Rogers
Humanistic therapy, person-centered therapy. Atmosphere of comfort. Active listening
Transference
Patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Client-Centered therapy
Developed by Carl Rogers the therapist uses techniques such as active listening (genuine accepting environment)
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
Behavior therapy
Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Counter conditioning
Conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behavior
Exposure therapy
Systematic desensitizion, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear
Systematic desensitization
Counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
Virtual reality exposure therapy
Progressing exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fear
Virtual reality exposure therapy
Progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fear
Aversive conditioning
Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Token economy
Operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior & can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
Cognitive therapies
Teaches people new, move adaptive ways of thinking and acting based on the assumption that thoughts intervene w our emotional reactions and events
Group therapy
Know other people are struggling too, learn from another.
Cognitive - Behavior Therapy
Combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
Family therapy
Treats the family as a system
