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
