chapter 15 vocab Flashcards
Active or reflective listening-
empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, clarifies, feature of Roger’s client-centered therapy
Antianxiety drugs-
medications that reduce tensions, apprehension and nervousness
Antidepressant drugs-
medications that gradually elevate mood and bring people out of a depression
Antipsychotic drugs-
medications usually reduce psychotic symptoms, hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, delusions
Aversive conditioning-
type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (alcohol)
Behavior modification (applied behavior analysis)-
systematic approach to changing behavior through the application of the principles of conditioning
Behavior therapies-
therapy that applies principles of conditioning to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Biomedical therapy-
prescribed medications/medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system
Client-centered therapy-
humanistic therapy, Rogers, therapists use techniques, active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic to facilitate clients’ growth
Clinical psychologists-
psychologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems
Counseling psychologists-
speciality within professional psychology that maintains a focus on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-
popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Cognitive therapy-
teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and emotional reactions
Countering conditioning-
behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new response to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors, exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
Couples (marital) therapy-
treatment of both partners in a committed, intimate relationship in which main focus is on relationship issues
Deinstitutionalization-
transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community-based facilities that emphasize outpatient care
eclectic approach-
approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-
biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain on and anesthetized patient
Evidence-based practice-
clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
Existential therapies-
form of counseling that helps people overcome limiting beliefs surrounding fears related to identity, death, meaning
Exposure therapy-
behavioral techniques, systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination/actuality) to things they fear and avoid
eye-movement desensitization reprocessing-
psychotherapy in which the patient recalls a traumatic event while undergoing bilateral stimulation, moving your eyes in a specific way
Family therapy (counseling)-
therapy that treats the family as a system, views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
Flooding-
behavioral therapy technique where in the patient learns to associate feelings of relaxation with fear-indulging stimulus
