Chapter 15 Flashcards
what is psychotherapy?
a trained therapist who uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome difficulties or achieve personal growth
what is biomedical therapy?
medications and other biological treatments
what is the electric approach?
uses techniques from various froms of therapy?
first major psychological therapy was developed by?
Freud
what is psychoanalysis?
people could achieve healthier, less anxious living by releasing the energy they had previously devoted to id-ego-superego conflicts
created by freud
what is resistance?
blocking from conciousness of anxiety-laden material
what is an interpretation?
analyst providing meanings to thoughts, dreams, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promoe insight
what is transference?
occurs when the patient transfers to the analyst emotions linked with other relationships
such as love or hatred for a parent
what is psychodynamic therapy?
deriving from psychoanalytic tradition
influenced by freuds
views individuals as repsonding to unconsious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight
what is the goal of psychodynamic therapy?
help people explore and gain perspective on defended-against thoughts and feelings
what is a behavior therapist?
- doubt the healing power of self-awareness, believing instead that problem behaviors are the problem
- aim to replace problematic behaviors with constructive behaviors
what is systemic desensitization?
type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relate state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
what is cognitive therapies?
teach people new, more adaptive ways of thinking
our thinking colors our feelings
what is cognitive behavioral therapy?
an integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy aims to alter the way clients act and the way they think
today’s most widely used therapy
what is group therapy?
conducted with groups rather than individuals
benefits from group interaction
does not provide the same degree of therapist involvement with each client
saves therapists’ time and clients’ money
encourages exploration of social behaviors and social skill development
enables people to see others share their problems
provides feedback as clients try out new ways of behaving
what is family therapy?
assumes that no person is an island
attempts to open communication in the family, working with multiple members to heal relationships and mobilize family resources
helps family members to discover and use conflict resolution strategies
treats the family as a system
views individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
what is evidence-based practice?
integration of the best available research with clinicians expertise and patients characteristics, preferences, and circumstances
explain eye movement desensitization and reprocessing? (EMDR)
clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
some differences are shown
therapy comes not from the eye movement but rather from the exposure therapy matter of the treatments
what is light exposure therapy?
to counteract winter depression, some people spend time each morning exposed to intense light that mimics natural outdoor light
lack of vitamin D hormones
3 benefits for all psychotherapies?
hope for demoralized people
a new perspective for oneself and the world, leading to new behaviors
an empathetic, trusting, caring relationship
this involves any of the follwoing: changng the brains functioning by altering its chemistry with drugs, affecting its circuitry with electrical stimulation, magnetic impulses or psychosurgery, or influencing its responses with lifestyle changes.
biomedical therapy
drug therapies are?
most widely used biomedical treatment
what is psychopharmology?
study of drugs effects on mind and behavior
what is an antipsychotic drug?
drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders
what is an antianxiety drug?
drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
what are antidepressants?
drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD
what is mood-stabilizing drugs?
depakote
lithium
what is electroconvulsive therapy?
manipulates the brain by shocking it, and is used for severely depressed patients
what is deep brain stimulation?
another neural stimulation technique used to treat depression
implanted electrodes
what is psychosurgery and why is it the least used biomedical therapy?
surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
it is irreversible and thus the least used
what is a lobotomy?
developed by Monez in the ’30s
once widely used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients
cut nerves connecting frontal lobe to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
what is resilience?
personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
what is posttraumatic growth?
may be an outcome when struggling with challenging crises
