definitions from bk chapter 15 Flashcards
Etiology:
cause of a disorder.
Psychiatry:
a branch of medicine that treats mental and behavioral conditions.
Counseling psychologist:
a mental health professional who helps ppl experiencing difficulty adjusting to life stressors to achieve greater well-being.
Clinical psychologist:
a mental health practitioner who researches, evaluates, and treats psychological conditions.
Scientist-practitioner model:
aka Boulder model::
aka Boulder model:: a balance program in which psychologist learn about clinical skills as well as research skills.
Practitioner-scholar model
: aka Vail model::
a program in which psychologist emphasize clinical training over generating n research in order to understand, synthesize, and apps existing research.
Clinical research model:
a type of psychology program that emphasizes clinical psychology research over direct work with clients.
Psychopharmacology:
treatment of psychological conditions using medication. .
Outpatient:
treatment settings that are outside of a hospital.
deinstitutionalization:
the process of replacing inpatient psychiatric care with community outpatient services.
Insight:
an understanding if the motivation of behavior.
Insight therapies:
a family of psychotherapies that focus on the unconscious motivations of behavior.
Psychodynamic therapies:
a family of psychotherapies that have at their cod the exploration of intrapsychic conflicts and the role of insight to bring about therapeutic change.
Free association:
a psychoanalytic therapy technique that reveals intrapsychic conflicts by interpreting spontaneous responses to given words.
Dream analysis:
a psychoanalytic technique that reveals intrapsychic conflicts through interpretations of dreams.
Manifest content:
in the psychoanalytic theory the dream. As the dreamer reports it.
Interpretations:
a psychoanalytic technique in which a therapist will reveal explanations of the client’s unconscious motivations in ofer to improve psychological functioning.
Latent content:
in the psychoanalytic theory, the thee, underlying, undisguised meaning of a dream.
Resistance:
a psychoanalysis , a client’s employment of a defense mechanism during therapy.
Defense mechanism:
unconscious arrangements that the ego uses to satisfy iD instincts indirectly.
Transference:
in psychoanalysis, a type, of displacement in which the client will unconsciously act out relationships with the therapists.
Psychoanalysis:
a type of therapy based on Freud’s theory of personality.
Short-term psychodynamic therapy:
a type of solution focused psychoanalytic treatment.
Humanism :
a theoretical orientation emphasizes growth, potential, and self-actualization.
Actualizing tendency:
according to the humanists the instinctual desire to be the best versions of yourself possible.
Client-centered therapy:
a humanistic psychotherapy based on a nondirective, genuine, and accepting environment.
Active listening:
a communication method in which the listener responds in ways that demonstrate understanding of what another person says,
Genuineness:
according to the client-centered approach, authenticity in a relationship.
Acceptance:
communication of respect.
Unconditional positive regard:
according to Rogers a sense of respect and love that is not linked to specific behaviors.
Empathy:
an attempt to understand the Client’s inner world.
Phenomenology:
the idea that, in order to understand a person, it is important to understand the world from that person’s perspective, aka phenomenological approach.
Positive psychology :
a branch of psychologist that studies human strengths.
