Chapter 17 Therapy 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 suffers from psychological difficulties.
Eclectic Approach
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Psychoanalysis
Theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight.
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love/hate for a parent)
Client-Centered Therapy
Rogers. The therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients growth. (Person-centered)
Carl Rogers
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies.
Active Listening
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates & clarifies.
Behavior Therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
Counterconditioning
A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new response to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors ; based on classical conditioning.
Exposure Therapies
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear/avoid.
Systematic Desensitization
A type of Counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears.
Aversive Conditioning
A type of conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol)
Token Economy
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior.
Cognitive Therapy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting.
Cognitive-behavior Therapy
A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy.
Family Therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.
Regression toward the Mean
The tendency for extremes of unusual scored to fall back (regress) toward their average.
Meta-Analysis
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
Antipsychotic Drugs
Dampen responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli.
Schizophrenia
Anti anxiety Drugs
Depress central nervous system.
Antidepressant
Increase serotonin and norepinephrine.
SSRI
Lithium
Mood stabilizers for those suffering from bipolar depression.
Bipolar-depression
Group Therapy
6-9 people attending 90 minute session that can help more people and costs less
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing EDMR
Waving finger infringement of eyes of clients and attempts to unlock and reprocess previous frozen traumatic memories
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation rTMS
Treating depression by placing a magnetic coil over prefrontal regions of the brain.
Psychosurgery
Last resort. Removal of brain tissue
