Module 52 Flashcards
Psychotherapy
involves an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and mental patient.
Biomedical
uses drugs or other procedures that act on the patient’s nervous system curing him of psychological disorders.
Eclectic
uses various forms of healing techniques depending on the client’s unique problems.
Psychoanalysis
to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness where the patient can deal with them.
Free Association
Freud: patient lies on a couch and speaks whatever comes to mind.
Resistance
During free association, the patient edits his thought to resist his feelings and to express his emotions.
Transference
Eventually the patient opens up and reveals his innermost private thoughts to the therapist developing positive or negative feelings (transference) towards him.
Criticisms of Psychoanalysis
its hard to refute because it cannot be proven or disproven, takes a long time and is wickedly expensive.
Humanistic Therapists
aim to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grin in self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Active Listening
echoing, restating, and clarifying the patient’s thinking, acknowledging expressed feelings.
Behavior Therapy
applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. To treat behavior therapists don’t delve deeply below the surface.
Counterconditioning
a procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors.
-Aversive and exposure therapies
Exposure Therapy
treats anxiety by exposing people (in imagination or reality) to things they fear or avoid.
Systematic Desensitization
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-arousing stimuli commonly used to treat phobias.
Aversive Conditioning
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. With this technique, temporary condition aversion to alcohol has been reported.
