Unit 8 - Types of Therapy

Question 1

Eclectic Approach

Answer 1

Uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

Question 2

Psychoanalysis

Answer 2

Released previously repressed feelings; bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness where the patient can deal with them (self-insight); free association –> dream analysis

Question 3

Resistance

Answer 3

Blocking from consciousness any anxiety-arousing material (hesitation, lying, or stuttering).

Question 4

Interpretation

Answer 4

The analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors.

Question 5

Transference

Answer 5

Positive or negative feelings are transferred onto the therapist.

Question 6

Psychodynamic Therapy

Answer 6

Views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and that seeks to enhance self-insight.

Question 7

Insight Therapies

Answer 7

Increasing a client’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

Question 8

Behavior Therapy-Conditioning

Answer 8

Therapy that applies learning (conditioning) principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

Question 9

Counterconditioning

Answer 9

Classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.

Question 10

Exposure Therapy

Answer 10

Expose patients to things they fear and avoid.

Question 11

Systematic Desensitization

Answer 11

Associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.

Question 12

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Answer 12

Exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears in a virtual sense.

Question 13

Aversive Conditioning

Answer 13

Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. Ex. alcohol will cause nausea.

Question 14

Token Economy

Answer 14

Exchanges a token of some sort for various privileges or treats.

Question 15

Cognitive Therapy

Answer 15

Thoughts. feelings, and behavior are all connected; identifying and changing unhelpful or inaccurate thinking, behavior and emotional responses.

Question 16

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) - Albert Ellis

Answer 16

A.B.C.: Activating Event, Beliefs, Consequences; Elimination of core irrational beliefs.

Question 17

Cognitive Therapy for Depression - Aaron Beck

Answer 17

Changing unhelpful or inaccurate thinking, problematic behavior, and distressing emotional responses.

Question 18

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Answer 18

Alter the way people act (behavioral therapy) and alter the way they think (cognitive therapy).

Question 19

Antipsychotic Drugs

Answer 19

Similar enough to molecules of the dopamine neurotransmitter; block its activity.

Question 20

Anti-anxiety Drugs

Answer 20

Depress nervous system activity.

Question 21

Antidepressant Drugs

Answer 21

Increasing the availability of the norepinephrine neurotransmitters or serotonin, which elevate arousal and mood.

Question 22

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Answer 22

Severely depressed patients in which a brief electrical current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.

Question 23

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

Answer 23

Repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.

Question 24

Tardive Dyskinesia

Answer 24

Movement disorder associated with the use of antipsychotics.