Chapter 16 - Therapy - Exam 4 Flashcards
What is the definition of psychotherapy?
using a trained professional to help another person behave and feel differently
What is DUPC
Describe
Understand
Predict
Control
What are the 4 levels of mental health professionals
Paraprofessional - certificated
Counselor - Masters Degree
Psychologist - PHD
Psychiatrist - MD and PhD
what is psychoanalysis
Started by Freud
Brings up the subconscious
Talking Cure
What are freud’s methods
Free association Dream analysis Analysis of resistance Analysis of transferrence SLOW and COSTLY THERAPY
What is behavior modification
John Watson
Change by reconditioning and learning
What are watson’s methods
Modeling Token economy - rewards contracts systematic desensitization Flooding Aversive - make experience painful to stop behavior
What is Rational Emotive Therapy?
Albert Ellis - cognitive
Change by changing the way you think
What are Ellis’s methods
Remove negative thoughts
substitute with positive
What is client centered therapy
Rogers - Humanistic
Free will / free choice
Change occurs through personal growth
What are Rogers’s methods?
unconditional positive regard good listener provide empathy reflective speech - Mirror NOT DIRECTED THERAPY
What does Eysenck say about the effectiveness of therapy
No treatment is better than treatment
People can get better on their own
Placebo effects are not treatments
self help works
What do Smith and Glass say about therapy
People need to go to therapy.
Person with treatment better than 80% of other people
Odds are in your favor if you seek treatment
What things can make therapy harmful
Therapis bias
Unethical treatment
incompetence
What are the keys to successful therapy
form therapeutic alliance
desire to improve
educated consumers
