Therapy Flashcards
What is Psychotherapy?
A trained professional uses psychological techniques to help a person with a psychological disorder.
What is Insight Therapy?
Therapy aimed at helping individuals understand the root causes of their disorder to promote change.
Self-awareness and psychological well-being go hand in hand.
What are the types of Insight Therapies?
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Focus on unconscious processes and childhood experiences.
- Humanistic Therapy: Emphasizes self-fulfillment and personal growth.
What is Behavior Therapy?
Focuses on changing behaviors rather than exploring unconscious motives or past experiences.
Problem behaviors are learned and can be unlearned with new associations.
What is Eclectic Therapy?
Uses more than one approach to treat psychological disorders, tailoring treatment to individual needs.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Freud’s method of therapy to gain insight and emotional release through talking.
Unconscious motives and childhood experiences shape behavior.
What are the key features of Freud’s Psychoanalysis?
- Attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious conflicts.
- Focuses on childhood experiences and repressed feelings.
- Uses techniques like free association, resistance, and transference.
What is Free Association in Psychoanalysis?
Patient talks about whatever comes to mind to access unconscious thoughts.
What is Resistance in Psychoanalysis?
When a patient avoids talking about certain topics, revealing important emotional issues.
What is Transference in Psychoanalysis?
The patient develops strong feelings (anger, love) toward the therapist, providing insight into their relationships.
What are the differences in Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy from Freud?
Less focus on the unconscious and childhood; more emphasis on current relationships; may involve medications.
What is Humanistic Therapy?
Emphasizes personal growth and self-fulfillment through conscious experiences and self-awareness.
What are the key features of Humanistic Therapy?
- Focuses on present feelings, not past experiences.
- Self-actualization : Helping individuals reach their full potential.
- Focuses on responsibility for actions, not the unconscious.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
Developed by Carl Rogers , it is non-directive, allowing clients to lead the discussion.
Humanistic
What are the key features of Person-Centered Therapy?
- Therapist provides unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness.
- Active listening: The therapist paraphrases, invites clarification, and reflects feelings to improve communication.
What are the key features of Behavior Therapy Techniques?
Focuses on changing problem behaviors (not self-awareness) and utilizes classical and operant conditioning techniques.
What are Classical Conditioning Techniques for Behavioral Therapy?
5 types
- Counterconditioning: Changing the emotional response to a stimulus.
- Exposure Therapy: Gradual exposure to feared stimuli.
- Systematic Desensitization: Gradual exposure paired with relaxation.
- Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy: Using VR to expose clients to phobias.
- Aversive Conditioning: Associating unpleasant feelings with unwanted behaviors.
What are Operant Conditioning Techniques Behavioral Therapy?
4 types
- Behavior Modification: Reinforcing positive behaviors.
- Token Economy: Rewarding good behavior with tokens.
- Punishment: Used to reduce harmful behaviors.
- Flooding: Exposing a person to intense fear stimuli.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
Focuses on changing maladaptive thought patterns that lead to emotional distress.
Our thoughts influence our feelings and behaviors.
What is Beck’s Cognitive Therapy?
Focuses on negative thought patterns that lead to depression.
Catastrophizing: Overgeneralizing negative thoughts, making problems seem worse than they are.
What are the techniques in Cognitive Therapy?
2 types
- Cognitive Restructuring: Changing negative or irrational thoughts.
- Stress Inoculation Training: Teaching clients to manage stress through positive thinking.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Combines cognitive therapy (changing thoughts) and behavioral therapy (changing behaviors).
Changing negative thought patterns and engaging in behaviors incompatible with the disorder.
What are the techniques in CBT?
3 types
- Relabeling: Changing the way obsessive thoughts are interpreted.
- Behavioral Activation: Encouraging engagement in positive activities.
- Exposure and Response Prevention: Clients are exposed to their fears but prevented from engaging in compulsive behaviors.
Relabeling
Changing the way obsessive thoughts are interpreted.
CBT
Behavioral Activation
Encouraging engagement in positive activities.
CBT
Exposure and Response Prevention
Clients are exposed to their fears but prevented from engaging in compulsive behaviors.
CBT
Counterconditioning Therapy
Classical conditioning therapy
Changing the emotional response to a stimulus.
Exposure Therapy
Classical conditioning therapy
Gradual exposure to feared stimuli.
Systematic Desensitization
Classical conditioning therapy
Gradual exposure paired with relaxation.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
Classical conditioning therapy
Using VR to expose clients to phobias.
Aversive Conditioning
Classical conditioning therapy
Associating unpleasant feelings with unwanted behaviors.
