Chapter 17 Flashcards
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system
Psychotherapy
An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suggest from psychological difficulties
Eclectic approach
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Eclectic- a variety
Psychoanalysis
Involves an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Sigmund Freud
Created psychoanalysis which was the first of the psychological therapies
Free association
Psychoanalysis, method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patients’ transfer to the analyst of their emotions from other relationships such as love or hatred for a parent
Client- centered therapy
A humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate a clients growth
Carl Rogers
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self actualizing tendency
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies, a feature of Rogers client centered therapy
Behavioral therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Used to treat anxiety disorders
Counter conditioning
A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors-based on classical conditioning
Little Albert experiment, retraining something from a previous response to a specific stimulus
Exposure therapy
Behavioral techniques such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid -repeated exposure
The guy who was afraid of dogs
Systematic desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli-used to treat phobias
Virtual reality exposure therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations(key word) of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Aversive conditioning
A type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
The nausea w/ alcohol example
Cognitive therapies
Therapy that teaches people adaptive ways of thinking and acting, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Link to depression
Cognitive-behavior therapy
Cognitive therapists often combine the reversal of self-defeated thinking with efforts to modify behavior
Used for OCD
Group therapy
Helps ppl relate to others so they do not feel alone, gives ppl the chance to receive feedback from others and try new coping methods
Family therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system, views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication
Regression toward the mean
Tendencies for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
Meta-analysis
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
