Chapter 16 Flashcards
Define eclectic psychotherapy?
Form of psychotherapy that involves drawing on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem.
Define psychotherapy?
Interaction between a socially sanctioned clinician and someone suffering from a psychological problem with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem.
Define psychodynamic psychotherapists?
Therapists that explore childhood events and encourage individuals to use this understanding to develop insight into their psychological problems.
Define resistance?
Reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconscious material.
Define transference?
Event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the clients life and the client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies.
Define interpersonal psychotherapy? (IPT)
Form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping clients improve current relationships.
Define person-centred therapy?
Assumes that all individuals have a tendency toward growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist.
Define gestalt therapy?
Goal of helping the client become aware of his/her thoughts, behaviours, experiences, and feelings and to own or take responsibility for them.
Define 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.
Define token economy?
Form of behaviour therapy in which clients are given “tokens” for desired behaviours, which they can later trade for rewards.
Define exposure therapy?
Approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response.
Define cognitive therapy?
Focuses on helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about self, others, or the world.
Define 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.
Define mindfulness mediation?
Teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment, to be aware of his/her thoughts, feelings, and sensations; and to detect symptoms before they become a problem.
Define cognitive behavioural therapy? (CBT)
Blend of cognitive and behavioural therapeutic strategies.
