Chapter 16 Flashcards
What are the different types of treatments/therapies?
Insight therapies.
Behaviour therapies.
Biomedical therapies.
involve verbal interactions intended to enhance
clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful
changes in personality and behaviour.
Insight therapies
involve the application
of learning principles to direct efforts to change
clients’ maladaptive behaviours.
Behaviour therapies.
Psychological testing, diagnosis, treatment with insight or behaviour therapy
Clinical psychologist
Similar to clinical psychologist, but more focus on work, career, and adjustment problems
Counselling psychologist
Diagnosis and treatment, primarily with biomedical therapies, but also insight therapies
Psychiatrist
Insight and behaviour therapy, often help inpatients with their return to the community
Clinical social worker
Inpatient care, insight and behaviour therapy
Psychiatric nurse
Vocational counselling, drug counselling, rehabilitation counselling
Counsellor
Marital/couples therapy, family therapy
Marriage and family therapist
an insight therapy that
emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts,
motives, and defences through techniques such as
free association and transference.
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis this effort to explore the unconscious, the therapist relies on two techniques:
free association and dream
analysis
clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible.
free association
the therapist interprets the
symbolic meaning of the client’s dreams.
dream analysis
refers to largely unconscious defensive manoeuvres intended to hinder the progress of therapy.
Resistance
