Unit 13 Flashcards
All in 1 therapy
Psychotherapy
Best research with clinical expertise and patients’ characteristics
Evidence based practice test
Uses various forms of psychotherapy
Eclectic approach
Treatment involving psychological techniques
Psychotherapy
Started using gentler techniques to treat disorders
Dorothy Dix
Used exposure therapy to help with phobias
Mary Cover Jones
Patient’s free association, resistance, dreams, and transferences and the therapist’s interpretations released previously repressed feelings
Psychoanalysis
Blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Resistance
Analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
Patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Transference
Views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and seeks to enhance self-insight
Psychodynamic therapy
Started the psychoanalysis and dream analysis
Sigmund Freud
Aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Insight therapies
Uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine empathetic environment to facilitate client’s growth
Client-centered therapy
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
Active listening
Caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, that would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance
Unconditional positive regard
Developed client centered therapy
Carl Rogers
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior therapy
Uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
Conterconditioning
Treats anxieties b exposing people to things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
Associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
Systematic desensitization
Exposes people to simulations of their fears
Virtual reality exposure theory
Associates an unpleasant state with unwanted behaviors
Aversive conditioning
Used exposure theory to eliminate anxiety
Joseph Wolpe
People earn a token for exhibiting a good behavior and can later exchange them for rewards
Token economy
Teaches new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
Cognitive therapy
Combines cognitive therapy with behavioral therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Originally trained with Freudian techniques then used cognitive therapy
Aaron Beck
Believed in cognitive behavioral therapy
Albert Ellis
Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members
Family therapy
Tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average
Regression towards the mean
Combining many different research studies
Meta-analysis
Prescribed medication or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system
Biomedical therapy
Study of effect of drugs on mind and behavior
Psychopharmacology
Dampens responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli; treats schizophrenia
Anti-psychotic drugs
Depresses the CNS, treats PTSD and anxiety disorders
Anti-anxiety drugs
Increases norepinephrine and serotonin; treats depression
Antidepressant drugs
Contains lithium which is effective in treating bipolar disorder
Mood-stabilizing drugs
Involuntary movement of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs
Tardive dyskinesia
Brief electrical current is sent through the brain for severely depressed patients
ECT
Repreated pulses of magnetic energy to repress or stimulate the brain
rTMS
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue to change their behavior
Psychosurgery
Cuts the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotional controlling centers of the inner brain
Lobotomy
Personal strength that helps most people cop with stress and recover from adversity and trauma
Resilience
