Psych Disorders Treatment Flashcards
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
Eclectic approach
In psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis
Freud believed that the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapists interpretation of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight
Resistance
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Interpretation
The analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Transference
The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Psychodynamic therapy
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight
Insight therapies
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Client-centered therapy
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth
Active listening
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.
Unconditional positive regard
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance
Behavior therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Counterconditioning
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
Exposure therapies
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Systematic desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
Virtual reality exposure
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Aversive conditioning
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as alcohol)
Token economy
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
Cognitive therapy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Rational emotive behavior
A confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
Cognitive behavioral therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changes self defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Group therapy
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction
Family therapy
Treats the family as a system
Regression toward the mean
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average
