Psychotherapy and Psychological Disorders Flashcards
What are the 3 main categories of therapy?
Insight therapies
Behavior therapies
Biomedical therapies
________________ is…
Short term
Surface level issues
Here and now
Conscious
Moderate client revelations
Focused issues
Counselling
__________________ is…
Long term
Deep seated issues
There and then
Unconscious
Deep client revelations
life stories
Psychotherapy
_____________________ and ___________________ “specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems.”
Clinical psychologists and counseling psychologists
____________________ “are physicians who specialize in the treatment of psychological disorders.”
Psychiatrists
_______________________ work as part of a treatment “team” with a psychologists or psychiatrist
Psychiatric social workers
______________________ earn a bachelor’s or master’s degree and usually work with hospitalized patients.
Psychiatric nurses
___________________ is the open and flexible movement through time; being open to all that emerges from “being with”; an openness to the unfolding of possibilities
Presence
_______________________ for those working in helping fields is the ability to be attentive to their needs and concerns
Psychological Presence
One of the largest challenges of _________________ is holding space for a person to feel safely overwhelmed by events and situations - where a person is unconditionally accepted and understood by a caring companion
Psychological Presence
____________________ is how we take someone’s essence into our own reality
Attunement
__________________ is coupling of two autonomous entities into a functional whole…. Two literally become linked as one
Resonance
_____________________ “involve verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior
Insight therapies
Insight therapies include _____________, _______________, and ______________________
Psychoanalysis
Client-centered therapy
Group therapy
Psychoanalysis was developed by ___________________
Sigmund Freud
_____________________________ emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association, dream analysis and transference
Psychoanalysis
______________________ “occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives.”
Transference
Newer versions of the therapy are used and are referred to as ___________________________.
Psychodynamic approaches
_________________________ “is an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy.”
Client-centered therapy
Client-centered therapy is rooted in the humanistic perspective and the work of ____________________.
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers believed 3 core conditions were necessary to promote positive changes in therapy, what are they?
Genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathy.
With the ________________________ approach, the client and therapist work together almost as equals
Therapeutic process
The therapist’s key task with Therapeutic process is __________________
Clarification
___________________ is in which researchers often find the most support for the therapeutic approach they use.
Allegiance effect
_______________________ “involve the application of the principles of learning to direct efforts to change clients’ maladaptive behaviors.”
Behavior therapies
What are the two assumptions of behaviour therapy?
Behavior is a product of learning.
What has been learned can be unlearned.
__________________________ “is a behavior therapy used to reduce clients’ anxiety responses through counterconditioning.
Systematic desensitization
_____________________________ blend verbal and behavioral interventions
Cognitive-behavioral treatments
_________________________ is a treatment that “uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders.”
Cognitive therapy
Cognitive therapy emerged from the work of ____________________ and ____________________.
Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck
_________________________ “are physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders.”
Biomedical therapies
Two prominent biomedical therapies are:
Drug therapy
Electroconvulsive (ECT)
_____________________________________“is the treatment of mental disorders with medication.”
Psychopharmacotherapy (or drug therapy)
________________________ “borrow ideas, insights, and techniques from a variety of sources while tailoring their intervention strategy to the unique needs of each client.”
Eclectic therapists
Eclectic approaches are particularly common when a _____________________________ provides therapy.
Treatment team
What are the 3 barriers of multicultural sensitivity?
Cultural barriers, language barriers, and institutional barriers
The American Psychological Association (APA) uses the ____________________________________.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
___________________________ “are a class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.”
Anxiety disorders
_______________________________ “is marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat.”
Generalized anxiety disorder
______________________________________ “is marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object of situation that presents no realistic danger.”
Phobic disorder
___________________________ “is characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly” (see following animation sequence).
Panic disorder
___________________________________ “is a fear of going out to public places.”
Agoraphobia
______________________________________ is one in which people “show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure.”
Major depressive disorder
_______________________________________________ “is marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.”
Bipolar disorder
