Treatments Flashcards
Psychodynamic therapies
- use childhood events to understand psychological problems
- psychoanalysis
- insight
- transference
Insight
- free association: reporting all thoughts
- dream analysis
- interpretation
- interpret resistance
Resistance
Don’t cooperate with treatment
Transference
Analyst assumes that a major significance in Clients life and client reacts to analyst based on childhood fantasies
-essential for insigth
Interpersonal psychotherapy
-improve clients relationships with people
Behavior therapy
Disordered behavior is learned and changing behaviors can help
- operant conditioning
- token economy
- exposure therapy
- systematic desensitization
Token economy
- get tokens for desired behavior
- trade for rewards later
Exposure therapy
- confronting an emotion arousing stimulus repeatedly and directly
- decrease emotional response
Systematic desensitization
Imagine scary situations and try to relax all muscles
Cognitive therapy
Identify distorted thought about self or others
-cognitive restructuring
Cognitive restructuring
Teaching clients to question automatic beliefs, assumptions and predictions
-replace negative thinking with positive thinking
CBT
Combo of cognitive and behavioral therapies
Humanistic and existential approach
- assume human nature is generally positive
- person centered therapy
- mindfulness meditation
- gestalt therapy
- group therapy
- self help groups
Person centered therapy
- ppl have a tendency towards growth
- can be facilitated through genuine reactions from therapist
- therapist sees world through clients eyes
Gestalt therapy
- help client become aware of thoughts
- take responsibility for them
