PSYC 15 Flashcards
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consist of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
Psychotherapy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.
Biomedical Therapy
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Eclectic Approach
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the 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.
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
Transference
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; vies individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.
Psychodynamic Therapy
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
Insight Therapies
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients’ growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.)
Client-Centered Therapy
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Roger’s client-centered therapy.
Active Listening
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
Behavior Therapy
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid.
Exposure Therapies
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.
Systematic Desensitization
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulations o their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).
Aversive Conditioning
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.
Token Economy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
Cognitive Therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction.
Group Therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.
Family Therapy
Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.
Evidence-Based Practice
The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.
Resilience
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.
Biomedical Therapy
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.
Psychopharmacology
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder.
Antipsychotic Drugs
Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.
Antianxiety Drugs
Drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters.
Antidepressant drugs
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
Psychosurgery
A psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal loves to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
Lobotomy
