Chapter 16 Flashcards
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Psychoanalytic and Humanistic therapies
Attempt to improve functioning by increasing clients’ awareness of motives and defenses
Behavior therapies
Not insight therapies. Their goal is to apply learning principles to modify problem behaviors
History of treatment
Visitors to eighteenth-century mental hospitals paid to gawk at patients, as though they were viewing zoo animals.
Whos Painting captured one of the visits to London’s St. Mary of Bethlehem hospital (commonly called Bedlam)
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Psychotherapy
psychological techniques derived from psychological perspectives; trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome difficulties or acheive presonal growth
Biomedical therapy
Involves treatment with medical procedures; trained therapist, most often a medical doctor, offers medications and other biologoical treaments
Electric approach
approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis (goals)
Bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness; to help patients release energy devoted to id-ego-superego conflicts so they may achieve healthier, less anxious lives
Psychoanalysis (techniques)
Historical reconstruction, initially through hypnosis and later through free association; interpretation of resistance, transference
Psychodynamic therapy (goals)
To help people understnad current symptoms; to explore and gain perspective on defended-against thoughts and feelings
Psychodynamic therapy (Techniques)
Client-centered face-to-face meetings, exploration of past relationship torubles to understand origins of current difficulties
psychodynamic therapy
influenced by traditional psychoanalysis but differs from it in many ways
Differences (Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic therapies)
- lack of beleif in id, ego and superego
- briefer, less expecnsive, and more focused on helping the client find relief from current symptoms
- Helps clients understand how past relationships create themes that may be actd out in present relationships
Interpersonal therapy
-Brief 12-16 sessions form of psychodynamic therapy that has been effective in treating depression
Humanistic perspective (theme)
Empahsis on poeples potential for self-fulfilment; to give people new insights
Humanistic perspective (goals)
To reduce inner conflicts that interfere with natural development and growth; help clients grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance promoting persona; growth
Humanistic perspective (techniques)
Client-centered therapy; focus on taking responsibility for feelings and actions and on present and future rather than past
Roberts Perspective (Humanistic therapies)
- person centered therapy focuses on persons concious self-perceptions; non-directive; active listening; unconditional positive regard
- Most people possess resources for growth
- therapists foster by exhibiting genuiness acceptance and empathy
Counterconditioning
Uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviours
Exposure therapies
treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things ther fear and avoid
Systematic desensitization
Associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing, anxiety- triggering stimuli
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
Treats anxiety by electronic simulations in which people can safey face their greatest fears, such as airplanes, flying, spiders, or punlic speaking
Adversive conditioning (goals)
Substituting negative response for a positive response to a harmful stimulus; conditioning an aversion to something the person should avoid
Adversive Condtioning (techinques)
Unwanted behaviour is associated with unpleasant feeligns; ability to discriminate between aversive conditioning situation in therapy and all other situations can limit treatment effectivness
