Chapter 16 Flashcards
Psychotherapy Insight therapies Behavioural approaches Is psychotherapy effective? Biomedical treatments
What is psychotherapy?
A psychological intervention of over 600 different “brands”
What is psychotherapy designed to help?
Resolve emotional, behavioural and interpersonal problems
Who practices psychotherapy?
Clinical psychologists
psychiatrists
Counsellors
Social Workers
What’s a paraprofessional?
Someone with no professional training who provide mental health services
What approaches does Insight Therapies use?
Psychodynamic, Humanistic and Group
“The goal is to expand awareness or insight”, what therapy is this?
Insight Therapies
What are the 3 shared beliefs of Psychodynamic Therapy?
- Causes of abnormal behaviours stem from traumatic or adverse childhood experiences
- Strive to analyze thoughts, feelings, etc.
- When clients achieve insight into unconscious material, the causes and significance of symptoms become evident
What form of therapy was founded by Sigmund Freud?
Psychoanalysis
T or F: The goal of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious conscious
True
What are (at least) 3 of the 6 key ingredients or the Psychoanalytic approach?
- Free association
- Interpretation
- Dream analysis
- Resistance
- Transference
- Working through
What’s something that made Neo-Freudian different from Freud?
They focus more on conscious aspects rather than unconscious.
T or F: Traumatic memories can be repressed to forget about the pain.
False: there’s no evidence for repressing hurtful memories
What does interpersonal therapy focus on?
social skills, target interpersonal problems, conflicts and life transitions
What psychotherapy emphasizes the development of human potential and believes that human nature is basically positive?
Humanistic Psychotherapy
What does person-centered therapy NOT do?
It does NOT tell people how to solve problems
