Chapter 15 Flashcards
Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist & someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology
Biomedical therapy
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Eclectic approach
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist’s interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)
Psychodynamic theory
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, & seeks to enhance self-insight
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Insight therapies
In psychoanalysis, patients may experience strong feelings for their analyst, which is called ______. Patients are said to demonstrate anxiety when they put up mental blocks around sensitive memories- showing _______. The analyst will attempt to offer insight into the underlying anxiety by offering a(n) _______ of the mental blocks.
Transference; resistance; interpretation
Client-centered therapy
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth (also called person-centered therapy_
Active listening
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy
Unconditional positive regard
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior therapy
Counterconditioning
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
Systematic desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Virtual reality exposure therapy
Aversive conditioning
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
Token economy
Cognitive therapy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
