Chapter Fourteen Flashcards
Therapy
Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques: Interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to address psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Biomedical Therapy
Prescribes medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
Eclectic Approach
Psychotherapy and medication combined
Psychoanalysis
Patient’s free associations, resistances, and dreams (and the analyst’s interpretations of them) releases previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
Resistance
Blocking unpleasant or anxiety-laden material from consciousness
Interpretation
Analyst’s noting dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events to promote insight and growth
Transference
Patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Psychodynamic Therapy
Therapy influenced by the psychoanalytic tradition
Insight Therapies
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Person-Centered Therapy
Humanistic therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth
Who was person-centered therapy developed by?
Carl Rogers
Active Listening
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
Unconditional Positive Regard
Caring, accepting, and nonjudgmental attitude
Behavior Therapy
Therapy that uses learning principles to reduce unwanted behaviors, and increase desirable behavior
Counterconditioning
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
