Chapter 15 Treatment of Psychological Disorders Flashcards
Psycotherapy
An interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from a psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem.
Eclectic Psychotherapy
Treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem.
The most widely used approach to psychotherapy is ___ psychotherapy.
Eclectic psychotherapy.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapies
A general approach to treatment that explores childhood events and encourages individuals to develop insight into their psychological problems.
Resistance
A reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconscious material.
Free Association in Psychodynamic Therapy
Client tells every thought that enters their mind, without censorship.
Dream Analysis in Psychodynamic Therapy
Dreams are treated as metaphors that symbolize unconscious conflicts or wishes that contain disguised clues that the therapist can help the client understand.
Interpretation in Psychodynamic Therapy
The process by which the therapist deciphers the meaning underlying what the client says and does.
Analysis of Resistance
In the process of “trying on” different interpretations of the clients’ thoughts and actions, the therapist may find a certain interpretation that the client finds particularly unacceptable. This resistance can be analyzed to confront hidden issues.
Jung and the Collective Unconscious
Culturally determined symbols and myths that are shared among all people that could serve as a basis for interpretation beyond sex or aggression.
Transference
When the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client’s life and the client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
A form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping clients improve current relationships.
Behaviour Therapy
A type of therapy that assumes that disordered behaviour is learned and that symptom relief is achieved through changing overt maladaptive behaviours into more constructive behaviours.
Token Economy
A form of behaviour therapy in which clients are given “tokens” for desired behaviours, which they can later trade for rewards.
Exposure Therapy
An approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response.
Systematic Desensitization
A procedure in which a client relaxes all the muscles of his or her body while imagining being in increasingly frightening situations.
Cognitive Therapy
A form of psychotherapy that involves helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about self, others, and the world.
Cognitive Restructuring
A therapeutic approach that teaches clients to question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and positive beliefs.
Mindfulness Meditation
Teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment, to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings, and sensations, and to detect symptoms before they become a problem.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies.
Person-Centered Therapy
An approach to therapy that assumes all individuals have a tendency toward growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist.
What are the two well-known types of humanistic/existential therapies?
Person-Centered (humanistic) and Gestalt (existential).
