Ch.13: Therapy Flashcards
Any of a group of therapies used to treat psychological disorders and to improve psychological functioning and adjustment to life
psychotherapy
A type of psychodynamic therapy developed by FREUD, an intensive and prolonged technique for bringing unconscious conflicts into conscious awareness
Psychanalysis
In psychoanalysis, reporting whatever comes to mind without monitoring its contents
Free Association
In psychoanalysis, interpretation of the underlying true meaning of dreams to reveal unconscious process
Dream Analysis
Inability or unwillingness of a patient to discuss or reveal certain memories, thought, motives or experience
Resistance
The process by which a client attaches to a therapist feelings formerly held toward some significant person who figured in a past emotional conflict
Transeference
A psychoanalyst’s explanation of a patient’s free associations, and transference, more generally, any statement by a therapist that presents a patient’s problem in a new way
Interpretation
A type of therapy, that focuses on conscious processes and current problems; a briefer more directive and more modern form of psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic therapy
A type of therapy that emphasizes mazimizing a client;s inherent capacity for self-actualization by providing a non-judgmental, accepting atmosphere
Humanistic therapy
Roger’s humanistic approach to therapy, which emphasizes the client’s natural tendency to become healthy and productive using such techniques
Client-centered therapy
The four techniques used in Client-centered therapy are
empathy
Unconditional positive regard
Genuineness
Active listening
An insightful awareness and ability to share another’s inner experience
empathy
Complete love and acceptance of another, such as a parent for a child with no conditions attached
Unconditional positive regard
Authenticity or congruence; the awareness of one’s true inner thoughts and feelings and being able to share them honestly with others
Genuineness
Listening with total attention to what another is saying, includes reflecting, paraphrasing, and clarifying what the person says and means
Active Listening
A type of therapy that treats problem behaviors and mental processes by focusing on faulty thought processes and beliefs
Cognitive therapy
A process in cognitive therapy that is designed to change destructive thoughts or inappropriate interpretations
Cognitive Restructing
Ellis’s cognitive therapy that focuses on eliminating irrational emotional reactions through logic, confrontations, and examination of irrational belief
Rational-emotional behavior therapy
A type of therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavioral therapy
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
A group of techniques based on learning principles to change maladaptive behaviors
Behavior therapy
A behavioral therapy technique in which a client learns to prevent the arousal of anxiety by gradually confronting the feared stimulus while relaxed
Systematic desensitization
A type of behavioral therapy characterized by the pairing of an unpleasant stimulus with a maladaptive behavior in order to elicit a negative reaction to the target stimulus
Aversion therapy
A type of therapy characterized by watching and imitating models that demonstrate desirable behaviors
Modeling therapy
A treatment for psychological disorders that alters brain functioning with biological or physical interventions (psychosurgery)
biomedical therapy
The study of the effect of drugs on behavior and mental processes
Psychopharmacology
The four major categories of psycho therapeutic are
anti- anxiety drug
antipsychotic drug
mood stabilizer drug
antidepressent drug
A biomedical therapy based on passing electrical current through the brain it is used almost exclusively to treat serious depression when drug therapy fails
Electroconvulsive therapy
A neurosurgical alteration of the brain to bring about desirable behavioral, cognitive, or emotional changes, generally used when patients have not responded to other forms of treatment
psychosurgery
Surgery involves cutting nerve pathways between the frontal lobes and the thalamus and hypothalamus
Lobotomy
A biomedical treatment that uses repeated magnetic field pulses targeted as specific areas of the brain
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
A perspective on therapy that combines techniques from various theories to find the mot appropriate treatment
Eclectic Approach
A form of therapy in which a number of people meet together to work toward therapeutic goals
Group therap
A leaderless or nonprofessionally guided group in which members assist each other with a specific problem, as in alcoholics anonymous
Self-help group
