Unit 13 Vocab Flashcards
Eclectic Approach
And approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud‘s theory of therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients for you associations resistances, dreams, and transferences, and the therapists interpretations of them, released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain insight
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
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patient transfer to the analysis of emotions linked with other relationships
Psychodynamic theory
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that abuse individuals as responding to unconscious forces in childhood experiences, and that six and to enhance self insight
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 therapist uses techniques such as active listening with in a genuine, excepting, at empathetic environment to Purcella take clients growth
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers client centered therapy.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Hey Karen, excepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self acceptance
Behavior Therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles of elimination of unwanted behaviors
Counterconditioning
A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to Volk new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
Exposure Therapies
Behavioral techniques, such a simple Fetick desensitization, that treat anxiety is by exposing people to things they feared avoid
Systematic Desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that he so sheets a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
And anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Aversive Conditioning
A type of counterconditioning that associates and unwanted pleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Token Economy
In operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort of behavior for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later she took his various privileges or treats
Cognitive Theory
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thought intervene between events in emotional reactions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
Family Therapy
Therapy that treats the family has a system. Beers and individuals on want to behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
Regression Toward the Mean
The tendency for Xtreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average
Meta Analysis
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Evidence Based Practice
Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
Biomedical Therapy
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that acts directly on the patients nervous system
Psychopharmacology
The study of the effect on drugs on minded behavior
Antipsychotic Drugs
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
Tardive Dyskinesia
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
Anti anxiety Drugs
Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
Antidepressant Drugs
Drugs used to treat depression; also increase in the prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Hey biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an ass easiest patient
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
Psychosurgery
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
Lobotomy
Hey now where psycho surgical procedure once used to call him under control I’m controllably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobe to the emotional controlling centers of the inner brain
Resilience
The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
