Chapter 16 - Therapy Flashcards
What is psychotherapy?
Psychological techniques to assist someone in overcoming difficulties or achieving personal growth.
What is the eclectic approach in therapy?
Using various techniques from other forms of therapy.
Whos technique was psychoanalysis? and what did it consist of?
This was Sigmund Freuds technique. It began with free association, resistance, interpretation, and transferring.
What is person-centered therapy? and who developed it?
A type of therapy that focuses on the person’s conscious self-perceptions. The individual receiving the therapy controls the ship, and the therapist employs active listening. - developed by Carl Rogers.
What is exposure therapies?
Therapies that treat anxiety by exposing individuals to the things they fear and avoid.
What is aversive conditioning?
An aversive condition is a type of therapy that conditions an individual to have an aversion to a certain behaviour. Thus, preventing that person from behaving that way.
What is operant conditioning in therapy?
Focuses on how reinforcement and punishment can be utilized to either increase or decrease behaviours.
What is token economy?
People earn a token for specific behaviour - similar to positive reinforcement.
What are cognitive therapies?
A type of therapy that teaches people new and more adaptive ways of thinking.
What is family therapy?
Therapy that treats people in the context of their family system.
What is group therapy?
Therapy that in groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction.
What is therapeutic alliance in psychology?
a measure of the therapist’s and client’s mutual engagement in the work of therapy.
What do antipsychotic drugs do?
They mimic certain neurotransmitters and reduce overreactions to irrelevant stimuli.
What do antianxiety drugs do?
Depress CNS activity. EG,. Xanax Ativan.
What do antidepressant drugs do?
Increase availability of norepinephrine and serotonin, and promote the birth of brain cells.
