Unit 8 Vocab - Therapy Flashcards
psychotherapy
treatment involving psychological techniques; interactions between a therapist and client seeking to overcome psychological difficulties/acheive growth
biomedical therapy
prescribed medications and/or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system
eclectic approach
an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapies
psychoanalysis
Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives/conflicts; aims to seek, expose, and interpret unconscious tensions
resistance
in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden materials; client’s unwillingness (conscious/unconscious) to discuss a topic
interpretation
in psychoanalysis, tha analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, other significant behaviors and events to promote insight
transference
in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked to other relationships
client centered therapy
(Rogers) humanistic therapy, therapist uses techniques like active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate growth
active listening
empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies what they hear from the client
behavior therapy
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
counterconditioning
procedure in behavior therapy, uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors
exposure therapies
type of counterconditioning; behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear/avoid
systematic desensitization
type of exposure therapy; associated pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
virtual reality exposure therapy
type of exposure therapy; an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their general fears
aversive conditioning
type of counterconditioning; associates unpleasant states with unwanted behaviors
token economy
operant conditioning method in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior (tokens may be exchanged for privileges etc.)
cognitive therapy
therapy that teached people new, adaptive ways of thinking/acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and emotional reactions
cognitive-behavior therapy
popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
family therapy
therapy that treats the family as a system; views individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced/directed by other family members
regression toward the mean
tendency for extreme/unusual scores to regress toward their average
meta-analysis
procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
psychopharmacology
the study of the effects of drugs on the mind/behavior
tardive dyskinesia
involuntary movements of facial muscles, tongue, limbs; possible neurotoxic side effect of antipsychotics that target certain dopamine receptors
electroconvulsive therapy
biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent throught the brain of an anesthetized patient
