Py Ch. 15 Flashcards
, clients engage in complex, often lengthy verbal interactions with their therapist. The goal in these discussions is to pursue increased insight regarding the nature of the client’s difficulties, their understanding of themselves and their problems, and to sort through possible solutions.
Insight therapies
are based on the principles of learning. Instead of emphasizing personal insights, behavior therapists make direct efforts to alter problematic responses and maladaptive habits.
Behavior therapies
to therapy involve interventions into a person’s biological functioning. The most widely used procedures are drug therapy and electroconvulsive (shock) therapy. In recent decades, drug therapy
Biomedical therapies
are particularly high among those who are divorced or not married. The use of therapy is also greater among those who have more education. Females are more likely to pursue therapy than males are, but utilization rates are relatively low among ethnic minorities and those who lack health insurance. Many people who need therapy do not receive it.
Therapy utilization rates
Therapists work to change faulty or destructive thoughts, provide new ideas or info and guide individuals toward finding solutions to problems.
Disturbed thoughts
Therapists help clients understand and control their emotions and relieve their emotional discomfort.
Disturbed Emotions
Therapists help clients eliminate troublesome behaviors and guide them toward more effective lives
Disturbed Behaviors
Therapists help clients improve their relationships with others and avoid or minimize sources of stress in their lives.
Interpersonal and life situation difficulties
Therapists work to relieve biological disruptions that directly cause or contribute to psychological difficulties(for example chemical imbalances that lead to depression).
Biomedical Disturbances
means using more than one approach to treatment.
Eclectic
participates in
complex verbal interactions with clients
in order to enhance client’s
understanding of themselves and their
problems would be classified as an
Insight therapist.
Psychoanalysis
has strong defense
mechanisms that block unconscious thoughts from
coming to light so different techniques are used to
bring unconscious thoughts into awareness.
ego
finding hidden meanings to everyday words
Free Association
interpretations can show connections to hidden feelings – Freud believed dreams to be the most direct way to access the patient’s unconscious
Dream Analysis
where the patient avoids or blocks the analyst’s attempts to bring threatening unconscious material into conscious awareness
Resistance
where patients often apply some of their unresolved emotions and attitudes from past relationships onto the therapist
Transference
Therapy that seeks to maximize
personal growth through
affective restructuring
(emotional readjustment)
Humanistic
Therapies
Carl Rogers’s therapy emphasizing
the client’s natural tendency to
become healthy and productive.
Clients (not “patients”) are in
charge. The term ‘patient’
indicates illness, Roger’s believe
the client had the ability to be
responsible and competent.
Client-Centered Therapy
Therapeutic Qualities of Communication that
create a supportive experience in therapy:
① Accurate Empathy insightful awareness
and ability to share another’s inner experience
② Unconditional Positive Regard love and
acceptance with no contingencies
③ Genuineness/Authenticity
④ Active Listening involves reflecting,
paraphrasing, and clarifying
is more directive and indeed
confrontational form of therapy, as it forcefully
encourages clients to directly confront their underlying
feelings and integrate their feelings into their conscious
experience, often through the use of role-playing
exercises (ex. The empty chair), as discussed in your
text. This approach was developed by Fritz Perls.
Gestalt therapy
or behavioral
psychotherapy is a broad term
referring to clinical psychotherapy
that uses techniques derived from
behaviorism. Those who practice
behavior therapy tend to look at
specific, learned behaviors and how
the environment influences those
behaviors.
Behavior therapy
A form of
training designed to teach clients
ways of asserting their independence
and authority within organizations or
with other people.
Social Skills Training
