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
