Chapter 14 - Treatment to Psychological Disorders Flashcards
Insight
the conscious awareness of the psycho-dynamics that underlie psychological problems
Free association
In psychoanalysis, the procedure of verbalizing All thoughts that enter consciousness without censorship
Resistance
Defensive maneuvers that hinder the process of therapy
Transference
Occurs when the client responds irrationally to the analyst as if they were important figure from the clients past
Interpretation
Any statement by the therapist intended to provide the client with insight into his or her behavior or dynamics
Interpersonal therapy
A form of brief therapy that focuses on the clients interpersonal problems and seeks to develop new interpersonal skills
Rogers’s three important interrelated therapist attributes
Unconditional positive regard - Communicated when therapists show clients they care and aren’t judging them
Empathy - the willingness to view the world through the clients eyes
Genuineness - consistency between the way the therapist feels, and the way the y behave
Ellis’s Rational emotive therapy - ABCD
A - activating event that seems to trigger the emotion
B - belief system that underlies the way in which a person appraises the event
C - consequences for emotion of that behaviour
D - disputing or challenging an erroneous belief system
self-instructional training
a cognitive coping approach of giving adaptive self-instructions to oneself at crucial phases of the coping process
exposure
a therapeutic technique designed to extinguish anxiety responses by exposing clients to anxiety-arousing stimuli or situations while preventing escape or prevention through response prevention
response prevention
the prevention of escape or avoidance responses during exposure to an anxiety-arousing CS so that extinction can occur
flooding
client being exposed to real-life stimuli
implosion therapy
imagine scenes involving the stimuli
systematic desensitization
elimination anxiety using counter conditioning
Counterconditioning
a new response that is incompatible with anxiety is conditioned to the anxiety arousing CS
stimulus hierarchy
in systematic desensitization, the creation of a series of anxiety-arousing stimuli that are ranked in terms of the amount of anxiety they evoke
social skills traning
clients learn new skills by observing and then imitating a model who performs a socially skillful behaviour
psychodynamic behaviour therapy
an integration of psychoanalysis and behaviour therapy
eclectic
combining treatments and making use of whatever orientations and therapeutic techniques seem appropriate to the particular client they are treating
virtual reality (VR)
the use of computer technology to create highly realistic “virtual environments” that stimulate actual experience vividly
culturally competent therapists
use knowledge about the client’s culture to achieve a broad understanding of the client
specificity question
which type of therapy, administered by which kinds of therapists to which kinds of clients having which kinds of problems, produce which kinds of effects?
spontaneous remission
symptom reduction in the absence of any treatment
randomized clinical trials
a research design that involves the random assignment of clients having specific problems to an experimental (therapy) group or to a control condition so as to draw sound causal conclusions about the therapy’s efficiency
