Chapter 17 Flashcards
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system
Biomedical therapy
An emotionally charged confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Psychotherapy
An approach to the psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Eclectic approach
Freudian technique. Free association, dreams and the interpretations of those release previously repressed feelings allowing patient to gain self insight
Psychoanalysis
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Resistance
Noting the supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.
Transference
Humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques like active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth
Client centered therapy
Empathetic listening where the listener echos and clarifies.
Active listening
Therapy applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
Behavior therapy
A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors. Classical conditioning.
Counter conditioning
Behavioral techniques that treats anxieties by exposing people to things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
Associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Used to treat phobias.
Systematic desensitization
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears.
Virtual reality exposure therapy
A type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior.
Aversive conditioning
