Section 3 Flashcards
Psychotherapy
An interactive experience with a trained professional, working on understanding and changing behavior, thinking, relationships, and emotions.
Biomedical Therapy
The use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to reduce the symptoms of mental disorders.
Psychoanalytic Approach
Problems stem from conflicts between conscious and unconscious processing.
Free Association
Say whatever comes to mind
Resistance
Blocking anxiety-laden material from consciousness
Interpretation
Analyst noting supposed meaning of dreams, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight.
Transference
Transferring strong feelings from those of other relationships to the therapist.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Focus on developing insight about current close personal relationships.
Humanistic Approach
People have the potential for self-fulfillment.
Nondirective therapy
Therapist listens, without judging, and refrains from directing the client toward certain insights
Active Listening
Therapist echoes, restates, reflects on, and clarifies patient’s thinking.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Caring, accepting attitude.
Counterconditioning
Procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors.
Exposure Therapy
Exposes patients to things they fear and avoid. With repeated exposures anxiety lessens.
Systematic Desensitization
Associate a relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Aversive Conditioning
Associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).
Behavior Modification
Reinforce desirable behaviors; withhold reinforcement or punish undesirable behaviors.
Token Economies
Clients are given “tokens” for desired behaviors which they can later trade for rewards.
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy
Therapist helps the client understand that fears and anxieties are often based on irrational beliefs (catastrophizing beliefs).
Hope
Therapist assumes that client has resources that can be used for recover, and that improvement is possible.
Psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior.
Psychosurgery
Neurosurgery that removes brain tissue. Only used as a LAST resort.
