15.5 Flashcards
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Psychotherapy
A treatment of psychological disorder by methods that include a personal relationship between a trained therapist and a client.
Empirically supported treatments
Therapies demonstrated to be helpful
Psychodynamic Therapies
Attempt to understand conflicting impulses, including some that the individual does not consciously recognize
Psychoanalysis
tries to bring unconscious thoughts and emotions to consciousness.
Free association
Which the client says everything that comes to mind.
Dream analysis
Seeking to understand symbolism in reported dreams
Transference
In which clients transfer onto the therapist the behaviors and feelings they originally established toward their father, mother, or other important person.
Behavior Therapy
Begins with a clear, well-defined goal, such as eliminating test anxiety, and then attempts to achieve it through learning.
Cognitive Therapy
Seeks to improve psychological well-being by changing people’s interpretation of events.
Cognitive-behavior Therapy
In which therapists set explicit behavioral goals, but also try to change people’s interpretation of situations.
Person-Centered Therapy
Also known as nondirective or client-centered therapy, the therapist listens to the client with total acceptance and unconditional positive regard.
Family Systems therapy
The guiding assumption is that most people’s problems develop in a family setting and that the best way to deal with them is to improve family relationships and communication.
Electric Therapy
Use a combination of psychotherapy methods and aprroaches
Self-help Group
Operates much like group therapy, except without a therapist.
Spontaneous Remission
Improvement without therapy
Meta-analysis
Taking the results of many experiments, weighting each one in proportion to the number of participants, and determining the overall average effect.
Prevention
Is avoiding a disorder from the start.
Intervention
Is identifying a disorder and relieving it
Maintenance
Is taking steps to keep a disorder from becoming more serious.
Community Psychologists
Try to help people change their environment, both to prevent disorders and to promote a positive sense of mental well-being.
Deinstitutionalization
the removal of patients from mental hospitals.
Tarasoff
1976 case California court ruled that a therapist who has reason to believe that a client is dangerous to someone must warn the endangered person or take other steps to prevent harm.
M’Naghten Rule
To establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the cat, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. (to be regarded as insane under the M-naghten rule, peoplle must be so disordered that they do not understand what they are doing.
