Unit 7 Vocabulary Flashcards
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
Biomedical therapy
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 Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Resistance
In psychoanalysis the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings,resistances,and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s 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 a person’s awareness of underlying motive and defenses
Insight therapies
A Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine excepting empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth
Client centered therapy
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies; a feature of Rogers’ client centered therapy
Active listening
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
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques such as a systematic desensitization and virtual-reality exposure therapy that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
A type of exposure therapy the 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 electronic 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 people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tickets for various privileges of treats
Token economy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events in our emotional reactions
Cognitive therapy
A confrontational cognitive therapy developed by Albert Ellis that vigorously challenges people’s illogical self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction
Group therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members
Family therapy
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average
Regression towards the mean
A procedure for statistically 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
A bond of trust and mutual understanding between the therapist and client who work together constructively to overcome the clients problems
Therapeutic alliance
The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
Resilience
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Psychopharmacology
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe disorders
Antipsychotic drugs
Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
Anti-anxiety drugs
Drugs used to treat depression and Zaidi disorders excessive compulsive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder
Antidepressant drugs
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent to 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
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
Psychosurgery
A psychsurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably and I should know about patients the procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobe to the emotion control centers of the brain
Lobotomy
Developed psychoanalysis; this therapy aid to bring patients’ repressed or disowned feelings into conscious awareness
Sigmund Freud
Develop the widely used humanistic technique he called client Centered therapy which focuses on the person’s conscious self perception
Carl Rogers
Developed counterconditioning; pairs of stimulus with the new response that is incompatible with fear
Mary cover Jones
Refined Jones’s technique into what are now the most widely used types of behavior therapies: exposure therapies and systematic desensitize Asian
Joseph Wolpe
Helped us understand the basic concept in operant conditioning that voluntary behaviors are strongly encouraged by the consequences
BF Skinner
A cognitive therapist who believes that changing people’s thinking can change their functioning
Aaron Beck
The creator of rational emotive behavior therapy; believes that many problems arise from irrational thinking
Albert Ellis
