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 clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Eclectic approach
Sigmund freuds therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapists interpretations of them- released previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from 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 a 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 clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
Insight therapies
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients growth. Also called person-centered therapy.
Client-centered therapy
Empathic listening which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers client- centered therapy.
Active listening
A caring accepting nonjudgmental attitude which Carl 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 as systematic desensitization that treat anxieties by exposing people ( in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and 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 stimulations 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 people 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 people new more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Cognitive therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy ( changing self- defeating thinking) with behavior therapy ( changing 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 statistical 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.
Evidence- based practice
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system.
Biomedical therapy
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Psychopharmacology
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder.
Antipsychotic drugs
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic 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. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters.
Antidepressant drugs
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
Repetitive transcribing magnetic stimulation ( rTMS)
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue 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 people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.
Resilience
