Chapter 16 - Key Words Flashcards
A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives
psychotherapy
person with no professional training who provides mental healthy services
paraprofessional
psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight
insight therapies
technique in which clients express themselves without cernsorship of any sort
free association
attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety assocaited with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
resistance
projecting intense, unrealistic feelings
transference
treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions
interpersonal therapy
therapies that emphasize the development of human potential adn the belief that human nature is basically positive
humanistic therapies
therapy centring ont he client’s goals and ways of solving problems
person-centred therapy
therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self
Gestalt therapy
therapy that treats more than one person at a time
group therapy
12 step, self-help program that provides social support for achieving sobriety
AA
family therapy approach designed to remove barriers to effective communication
strategic family intervention
treatment in which therapists deeply involve themselves in family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions
structural family therapy
therapists who focus on specific problem behaviours and on current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
behavioural therapists
