Clinical Psyc-Chapter 11 Definitions

Question 1

cognitive-behavioral therapy

Answer 1

a treatment approach that emphasizes the role of thoughts and behavior in psychological problems and,. therefore, focuses on altering beliefs, expectations, and behaviors in order to improve the client’s functioning.

Question 2

interpersonal psychotherapy

Answer 2

a treatment approach that emphasizes interpersonal elements in the development, maintenance, and alteration of psychological problems (especially grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits)

Question 3

process-experiential therapy

Answer 3

a treatment approach that emphasizes the importance of becoming aware of emotions, understanding and expressing emotions, and transforming maladaptive into adaptive emotions.

Question 4

self-administered treatment

Answer 4

treatment that the client administers without direct input from a mental health professional

Question 5

self-efficacy

Answer 5

a person’s sense of competence to learn and perform new tasks

Question 6

short-term psychodynamic therapy

Answer 6

a treatment approach that emphasizes bringing to awareness unconscious processes, especially as they are expressed in interpersonal relationships, and helping the client to understand and alter these processes

Question 7

stepped care

Answer 7

an approach to health care service delivery in which lower-cost interventions are offered first, with more intensive and more costly interventions being provided only to those for whom the first-line intervention was insufficient

Question 8

telehealth

Answer 8

the delivery of health care services via telephone, videoconferencing, or computer-mediated communications

Question 9

transference

Answer 9

the unconscious application of expectations and emotional experiences, based on important early relationships, onto subsequent interpersonal relationships