Unit 13 (Modules 70-72) Flashcards
Different treatments (mostly diff. therapies)
What kind of treatment involves psychological techniques; consisting of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth?
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psychotherapy
What kind of treatment is used to prescribe medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology?
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biomedical therapy
What treatment focuses on an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy?
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eclectic approach
What therapeutic technique was created by Sigmund Freud and is based on the belief that the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams and transferences (and the therapist’s interpretations of them) released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight?
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psychoanalysis
What psychoanalysis technique focuses on the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is called what?
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resistance
What psychoanalysis technique focuses on the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviores and events in order to promote insight?
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interpretion
What psychoanalysis technique focuses on the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)?
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transference
What therapy derives from the psychoanalytic tradition and views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight?
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psychodynamic theory
What kind of therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses?
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insight therapies
What humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers, focuses on the therapist using techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathetic environment to facilitate clients’ growth (also called person-centered therapy)?
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client-centered theory
What kind of technique focuses on empathetic listneing in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies? (a feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy)
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active listening
What kind of technique requires a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Roger’s believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance?
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unconditional positive regard
What kind of therapy applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors?
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behavior therapy
What kind of behavior therapy procedures use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning?
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counterconditioning
What kind of therapy involves behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imaginary or actual situations) to the things fear and avoid?
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exposure therapies
What type of exposure therapy associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli (commonly used to treat phobias)?
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systematic desensitization
What kind of counterconditioning technique treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears, such as airplace flying, spiders, or public speaking?
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virtual reality exposure therapy
What type of counterconditioning associates an unpleasant stae (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)?
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aversive conditioning
What kind of operant conditioning procedure focuses on people earning a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats?
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token economy
What kind of therapy teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions?
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cognitive therapy
What kind of therapy is a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions?
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rational-emotive behavior therapy (rebt)
What kind of therapy is a popular intergrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior thinking (changing behavior)?
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cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt)
What kind of therapy is conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction?
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group therapy
What kind of therapy treats people in the context of their family system and views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members?
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family therapy
