Unit 13 vocab Flashcards
treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
psychotherapy
an approach to psychotherapy that depending on the client’s problems uses techniques form various forms of therapy
eclectic apprach
Freud’s therapeutic technique. he believed 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
psychoanalysis
in psychoanalysis the blocking form consciousness of anxiety laden material
resistance
in psychoanalysis the analysts noting supposed dream meanings resistances and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
interpretation
in psychoanalysis the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for parent)
transference
therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and that seeks to enhance self-insight
psychodynamic therapy
a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
insight therapies
a humanistic therapy developed by Rogers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth
client-centered therapy
aka person-centered therapy
empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies. a feature of rogers’ client-centered therapy
active listening
a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude which Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
unconditional positive regard
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
behavior therapy
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
counterconditioning
behavioral techniques such a systematic desensitization that treat anxieties by exposing ppl in imagination or reality to the things they fear/avoid
exposure therapies
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias
systematic desensitization
an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears such as airplane flying spiders or public speaking
virtual reality exposure therapy
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
aversive conditioning
an operant conditioning procedure in which ppl earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
token economy
therapy that teaches ppl new more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and out emotional reactions
cognitive therapy
a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (chaning behavior)
cognitive-behavioral therapy
therapy that treats the family as a system. views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members
family therapy
the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
regression toward the mean
a procedure for statisically combining the results of many different research studies
meta-analysis
clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
avidence-based practice
prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system
biomedical therapy
the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
psychopharmacology
drugs used to treat schizophreni and other forms of severe thought disorder
antipsychotic drugs
involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neruotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors
tardive dyskinesia
drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
antianxiety drugs
drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. diff types work by altering the avaliability of various neurotransmitters
antidepressant drugs
a biomedical therapy for severly depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
electoconvulsive therapy ECT
the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the braib; used to stimulat or suppress brain activity
repetitve transcranial magnetic stimulation rTMS
surgery that removes or destroys brain tissure in an effort to change behavior
psychosurgery
a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. the procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
lobotomy
the personal strength that helps most ppl cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
resilience
