Lec 13. Treatment 2 Flashcards
What is psychotherapy?
It is a trained therapist using psychological techniques to assist in personal difficulties/growth
What are the three roles of psychotherapy?
Identification of problems, change, and managing/overcoming difficulties
Who’s psychological school of thought encourages psychoanalysis for treatment?
Freud
What are the methods of psychoanalysis?
Free association, talk, dream analysis, and hypnosis
What kind of therapy involves operant conditioning?
Behaviour therapy
What treatment process involves a definition of an undesirable behaviour, the prediction of it, a hypothesis of what behaviour is occurring, and the development of strategies to support positive behaviour?
A functional assessment
What are the 4 steps of a functional assessment?
- Definition of undesirable behaviour
- Prediction of when it occurs
- Hypothesis of why it occurs
- Development of teaching strategies to support positive behaviour
What is systemic desensitization therapy?
It is practiced relaxation for tasks that have low SUDS scores that slowly move up
What is a SUD in desensitization therapy?
It is a subjective unit of distress
What is humanistic therapy?
It is the focus on the betterment of the person as a whole
What are the focuses of humanistic therapy?
Person centered
Unconditional positive regard
Empathy
Congruence
What does congruence mean in humanistic therapy?
It ensures the therapist is genuine and authentic
What is cognitive therapy?
It is a focus on changing thoughts -> behaviour
How does cognitive therapy poorly represent depression?
It represents it as a thought distortion that is all or nothing, catastrophizing, and it discounts positives
