Chapter 17 Flashcards
prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system.
Biomedical Therapy
: an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
Psychotherapy
: an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Eclectic approach
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and the therapist’s interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
Psychoanalysis
developed psychoanalysis, which was the first of the psychological therapies.
Sigmund Freud
: in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Free association
in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Resistance
: in psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
Interpretation
: in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
Transference
: 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 clients’ growth. (Also called person-centered therapy)
Client-Centered Therapy
believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies. Unless thwarted by an environment that inhibits growth, each of us is like an acorn, primed for growth and fulfillment. He believed that a growth-promoting climate required three conditions—genuineness, acceptance, and empathy.
Carl Rogers
empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy.
Active Listening
therapy that 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; based on classical conditioning. Includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning.
Counterconditioning
behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
Exposure Therapies
