Chapter 16 Flashcards
Paraprofessionals
People with no professional training to provide mental health services
Therapists
People who are skilled in a particular kind of therapy
Insight therapies

Psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches with the goal of expanding awareness
Psychodynamic
Focus on the psychological roots of emotional suffering
Humanistic therapies
Therapies that emphasize the development of the human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive
Free association
Technique in which client expressed themselves without censorship of any sort
Unconditional positive regard
Expressing empathy, support, and acceptance to someone regardless of what they say, or do
Reflection
The examination of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings
Behavioural therapist
Therapist to focus on specific problem, behaviours and uncurrent variables, that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
Systematic desensitization
Patients are taught to relax they are gradually explodes to what they fear in a stepwise matter
Flooding
Intensive type of exposure therapy in which you must face your fear how to maximum level of intensity for an extended period of time
Reciprocal inhibition
Add technique in which a desired behaviour responses gradually introduced to a stimulus that causes an undesired reaction
Anxiety hierarchy
List of situations relating to your target behaviour toward you, react with varying degrees of anxiety
In vivo
Directly facing afeared object, situation, or activity in real life
Response prevention
Technique in which therapists prevent clients from performing their typical avoidance behavior’s
