Treatment Of Abnormal Behavior Flashcards
Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques consists of interactions between a trained therapist & someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology
Eclectic approach
An approach to psychotherapy that depending on the clients problems , uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis
Freud believed free associates , resistances , dreams , & transference & the therapsids interpretations of them
allowing patient to gain self insight
HELP BRING REPRESSED FEELINGS OUT
Resistance
In psychoanalysis
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis
The analyst noting supposed dream meanings , resistances , & other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight
Transference
In psychoanalysis
The patient transfer to the analyst of emotions linked w other relationships
Psychodynamic therapy
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences , that seeks to enhance self insight
Insight therapies
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person awareness of underlying motives & defense
Client centered therapy
A humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within accepting empathetic environment
Active listening
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes & restates & clarifies
Unconditional positive regard
A caring , accepting , non judgmental attitude , which carl rovers beloved would help clients to develop self awareness & self acceptance
Behavior therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
PROBLEM BEHAVIORS ARE THE PROBLEM
Counterconditioning
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are tripping unwanted behaviors
Exposure therapies
Aversive conditioning
Exposure therapies
Behavioral techniques , such as systematic desensitization & virtual reality exposure therapy
That treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear & avoid
Systematic desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant , related state w gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
Used to treat phobias
Virtual reality exposure
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposed people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears
Aversive conditioning
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state w an unwanted behaviors
Nausea & drinking
Token economy
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior & can later exchange the tokens for various treats
Cognitive therapy
Therapy that teaches people new & more adaptive ways of thinking
Based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events & our emotional reactions
Rational emotive behavior
A confrontational cognitive therapy , developed by Albert Ellis that vigorously challenged people’s illogical self defeating attitudes & assumptions
Cognitive behavioral therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy w behavior therapy
Self defeating thinking & changing behavior
Group therapy
Therapy conducted w groups rather than individuals permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction
Family therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system
Views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed At other members
