Module 70 - Introduction to Therapy, and Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies Flashcards
Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
Eclectic
An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis
A therapeutic technique where a patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and the therapist’s interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)
Psychodynamic therapy
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight
Insight therapies
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Client-centered (person-centered) therapy
A humanistic therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathetic environment to facilitate clients’ growth
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy
Unconditional positive regard
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
