CHAPTER 15/16 Flashcards
A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve
emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of life
Psychotherapy
Who DOES NOT provide Psychotherapy
1.Clinical psychologists
2.psychiatrists
3. counsellors
4. Teachers
Teachers
Psychotherapy can help everyone even if its minimal (TRUE/FALSE)
TRUE (generally seen as beneficial but depends on circumstances)
“self-help” is a good form of Psychotherapy (TRUE/FALSE)
FALSE (accessible but unreliable, placebo, easy fixes for long term problems)
_______ is when the goal to make the unconscious
conscious, recover repressed
impulses, conflicts, and
memories
Psychoanalysis
Which of the following are methods of Psychoanalysis:
1. Free association
2. Dream analysis
3. Meditation
4. Resistance
5. Excersizing
6. Transference
7. Working through
Free association
Dream analysis
Resistance
Transference
Working through
Psychoanalysis that is More focused on conscious aspects
* Considers greater range of needs
(not just sex and aggression)
* Considers greater range of
influences (culture, interpersonal)
is
Neo Freudian (majority) Psychoanalysis
Some criticisms of Psychoanalysis include
Non-falsifiable
* Weak support for theories
* Ineffective
a type of therapy that involves: develop potential, creativity,
authenticity, grow into loving and responsible person,
focus on today
Humanistic therapy
Who is responsible for person-centered psychotherapy:
Carl Rogers
A method in which the Therapist should be authentic/genuine, show empathy,
and how unconditional positive regard
*Focus is on self-acceptance adaptive behaviour in the
present is
Person-Centered Therapy
A type of therapy that”
- Aim to integrate differing and sometimes
opposing aspects of our personality into
a unified sense of self
- Utilizes two-chair technique
is known as
Gestalt Therapy
_______ ______Refers to therapies that treat more
than one person at a time
Group Therapies
______ Therapy tries to Confront clients with what
they fear with the goal of reducing the fear
Exposure therapy
______ Therapists focus on specific problem
behaviours and the variables that maintain them,
uses learning and conditioning
Behavioural therapists
_____ Therapy tries to gradually increase
exposure to stimulus, pairing with relaxation
Systematic desensitization
______ Therapy tries to begin with intense exposure to
stimulus for prolonged period
Flooding
treatments that attempt to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with
more adaptive, rational cognitions (change cognition to change behaviours)
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies
_______ _________ Therapy shows that the consequences of an event depends on our beliefs
about that event
Rational Emotive Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is superior in effectiveness than psychodynamic and humanistic therapies (TRUE/FALSE)
TRUE (More effective than no or placebo
treatment
-More effective than psychodynamic and
humanistic therapies
-At least as effective as drug therapies for
depression)
___________ is the Use of medications to alter
brain chemistry and alleviate symptoms
Psychopharmacotherapy
Are biomedical treatments for mental disorders risky? (TRUE/FALSE)
Major side effects, some permanent
Concerns about drug interactions, safety
Need to consider traditional therapy as well
________ Therapy is when patients receive brief electrical
pulses to the brain that produce a seizure;
done under anaesthesia
6-10 treatments given three times a week
Electroconvulsive Therapy
(ECT)
______ is simply Brain surgery to treat psychological
disorders
Psychosurgery
