Therapy Flashcards

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eclectic approach

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An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

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psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and the analyst’s interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.

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resistance

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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

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interpretation

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In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting of supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.

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transference

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In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).

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psychodynamic therapy

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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.

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insight therapies

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Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

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person-centered therapy

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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth. (Also called client-centered therapy.)

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active listening

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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and seeks clarification. A feature of Rogers’ person-centered therapy.

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unconditional positive regard

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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.

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behavior therapy

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

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counterconditioning

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Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.

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exposure therapies

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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imaginary or actual situations) to the things they fear and

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systematic desensitization

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat specific phobias.

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aversive conditioning

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Associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).

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token economy

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An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats.

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cognitive therapy

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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.

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cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)

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A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).