Ya Flashcards
Biomedical Therapy
prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system.
Psychotherapy
an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Eclectic Approcach
an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Resistance
: in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Transference
: in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
Client-Centered Therapy
a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth. (Also called person-centered therapy)
Carl Rogers
believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies. Unless thwarted by an environment that inhibits growth, each of us is like an acorn, primed for growth and fulfillment. Rogers believed that a growth-promoting climate required three conditions—genuineness, acceptance, and empathy.
Active Listening
: empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy.
Behavior Therapy
: therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
Counterconditioning
: a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning.
Exposure Therapies
behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
Aversive Conditioning
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).
Cognitive Therapy
: therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
Cognitive-behavior Therapy
: a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
Family Therapy
: therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.
