Chapter 16 Therapy Flashcards
elcectic approach
an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy (best of all of them and combining into one)
psychotherapy integration
attempts to combine a selection of assorted techniques into a single, coherent system
biomedical therapy
Involves treatment with medical procedures; trained therapist, most often a medical doctor, offers medications and other biological treatments (body as a machine)
psychotherapy
treatment; a trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to over come difficulties or achieve personal growth
psychoanalysis
Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
resistance
in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
interpretation
in psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and the significant behaviours and events in order to promote insight
transference
in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)
free-association
A psychoanalytic technique in which a patient’s articulation of free associations is encouraged in order to reveal unconscious thoughts and emotions, such as traumatic experiences that have been repressed
psychodynamic therapy
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight. (face to face therapy)
interpersonal therapy
Brief 12- to 16-session form of psychodynamic therapy that has been effective in treating depression
in-sight therapy
a variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client’s awareness of underlying motives and defences
client-centered therapy
a humanistic therapy (rogers), in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client’s growth (person-centerer therapy)
non-directive therapy
the therapist listens, without judging to interpreting, and seeks to refrain from directing the client toward certain insights
What do therapist exhibit
genuineness, acceptance, and empathy
humanistic perspective
Emphasis on people’s potential for self-fulfillment; to give people new insights. goals are to reduce inner conflicts that interfere with natural development and growth; help clients grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance promoting personal growth
active listening
echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what the person expresses and acknowledging the expressed feelings
unconditional positive reward
a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Rogers believed to be conductive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance
behaviour therapy
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviours
counterconditioning
a behaviour therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviours
exposure therapy
behaviour techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear or avoid
systematic desensitization
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. (common in treating phobias)
virtual reality exposure therapy
an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears
aversive conditioning
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behaviour
