Chapter 16 - Therapy Flashcards
psychotherapy
treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
biomedical therapy
prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
eclectic approach
an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
psychoanalysis
frauds therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams and transferences - and the therapist interpretations of them - 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 patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationship (such as love or hate for a parent)
psychodynamic therapy
deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self insight.
meets with therapist face to face. happens once or twice a week.
insight therapies
a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
client entered therapy
a humanistic therapy that was developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients growth (also called person centred therapy).
active listening
empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies. a feature of rogers client centred therapy
unconditional positive regard
a caring, accepting, non judgemental attitude, which carl rogers believed would help clients develop self awareness and self acceptance. paraphrase, invites clarification and reflect feelings
behaviour therapies
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviours
counterconditioning
behaviour therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviours; including exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.
exposure therapies
behavioural techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy. that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid
systematic desensitization
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety- triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias
progressive relaxation
therapy that you focus on relaxing each type of muscle one by one and then gradually discuss or experience stressful situations and use virtual relaxation to lessen the anxiety
virtual reality exposure
an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulations of their greatest fears.
aversive conditioning
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behaviour (drinking alcohol)
token economy
an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behaviour and can later exchange their tokens for privileges or treats
cognitive therapies
teachers people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
cognitive-behaviour therapy
a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behaviour therapy.
group therapy
conducted with groups permitting theraputic benefits from group interaction
family therapy
treats the family as a system. views an individuals unwanted behaviour as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
meta-analysis
a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
