Unit 13- Treatment Of Psychological disorders Flashcards
Eclectic approach
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychotherapy
Trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone, biologically influenced disorders such as schizophrenia are treated with biomedical therapy
Psychotherapy integration
Attempts to combine a selection of assorted techniques into a single, coherent system
Biomedical therapy
Used to treat biologically influenced disorders such as schizophrenia
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapists interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain self insight
Free association
Freud used it- lie down with analyst out of view and say whatever comes to mind
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight (underlying wishes, feelings, and conflicts)
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)
Psychodynamic therapy
Therapy deriving from psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight (May talk face to face once a eek for only a few weeks)
Interpersonal psychotherapy
A brief variation of psychodynamic, effective in treating depression
Insight therapies
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Client-centered therapy
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapsids uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate patients growth
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers client-centered therapy
Unconditional positive regard
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
Behavior therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to elimination of unwanted behaviors (they doubt the healing power of self-awareness)
Counter conditioning
A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
Exposure therapies
Behavioral techniques, such as systemic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things that they fear and avoid
Systematic desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias (progressive relaxation to train to relax one muscle group after another until drowsy state)
Virtual reality exposure therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Aversive conditioning
A type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol
Token economy
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
Cognitive therapy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Stress inoculation training
Teaching people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations
