Chapter 17 Therapy 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 Approach
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Psychoanalysis
Theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight.
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love/hate for a parent)
Client-Centered Therapy
Rogers. The therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients growth. (Person-centered)
Carl Rogers
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies.
Active Listening
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates & clarifies.
Behavior Therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
Counterconditioning
A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new response to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors ; based on classical conditioning.
Exposure Therapies
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear/avoid.
Systematic Desensitization
A type of Counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears.
