Unit 13- Treatment Flashcards
psychotherapy
treatment involving psychological techniques; achieve personal growth
biomedical therapy
prescribed medications act on person’s physiology
eclectic approach
depending on the client’s problems, various therapy forms
psychoanalysis
release repressed feelings to gain self-insight, freud
resistance
blocking consciousness from anxiety-laden material
interpretation
analyst’s noting to promote insight
transference
patient’s transfer to analyst of emotions linked with other relationships, the patient may have reactions toward the therapist that are actually based on feelings toward someone from the past
psychodynamic therapy
clients respond to unconscious/childhood, to gain self-insight, less intensive version of psychoanalysis
insight therapies
aim to improve psychological functioning; increase person’s awareness
client-centered therapy
active listening, empathic/accepting environment, Carl Rogers, humanistic, maslow
active listening
empathic listening, listener restates/clarifies
unconditional positive regard
caring, accepting, non-judgemental attitude
behavior therapy
applies learning principles to eliminate unwanted behavior, skinner and pavlov
counterconditioning
classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
exposure therapies
treat anxieties by exposing people to fears
systematic desensitization
associates a pleasant/relaxed state with anxiety stimuli
virtual reality exposure therapy
expose people to electronic simulations of greatest fears
aversive conditioning
associates unpleasant state with unwanted behavior
token economy
people earn a reward for desired behavior
cognitive therapy
teaches people new, adaptive ways of thinking, aaron beck and albert ellis
rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
challenges self-defeating attitudes and assumptions