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
