Therapy and Treatment Flashcards
What are the two types of treatments?
Psychotherapy and Biomedical therapy
Directly addressing thoughts feelings and behaviours of an ind. is what type of therapy?
Psychotherapy
What is biomedical therapy?
Involves medication and/or medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.
Two ways an ind can get help for their behaviours in psychotherapy?
Insight therapy and Skill based therapy
How is insight therapy helpful?
Helps people gain insight into their behaviour by understanding wehre they come from
How is skill based therapy helpful?
Can change disordered behaviour directly w less concern on where they came from.
What is the first form of therapy?
Psychoanalysis
Who created psychoanalysis?
Sigmund frued
What is psychoanalysis?
Helps reveal unconscious/repressed conflicts.
What is free association?
Talking about anything that comes to mind
What is Behaviour Therapy?
Skill based- wanting to change disordered behaviour
How can you approach behaviour therapy?
Through counterconditioning (learning a new response to something an ind. previously displayed an undesired behaviour)
What is aversive conditioning?
Stopping an undesirable behaviour by using an aversive stimuli.
A client being forced to experience a feared situation is what type of behaviour?
exposure therapy
What is Flooding?
Client is rapidly exposed to their fear with no place to hide or escape.
