8.8 Flashcards
Describe the type of exposure therapy known as systematic desensitization
This type of exposure therapy has a person learn deep muscle relaxation and then has them imagine that they are in a situation with their phobia. When the person starts to feel anxiety the therapist would guide the person into a state of relaxation
When would exposure therapy use VR technology?
When it is dangerous or too difficult to recreate a situationwith the person’s phobia in it
Explain aversive conditioning.
The goal of this conditioning is to help a person avoid a harmful stimulus by pairing that stimulus with an unpleasant response
Behavioral
Focus on treating the behaviors, not the internal or mental causes behind a person’s condition. Work best for specific behavior problems like phobias or compulsions
Cognitive
Focus is on changing a person’s inner dialogue and getting a person to see the errors of their irrational ways of thinking
Humanistic
Focus is on learning about how an individual can grow. This approach helps individuals take responsibility for themselves and gain a deeper self-understanding
Perspective
Treatment orientation
Psychodynamic
Focus is to discover the unconscious motives and repressed memories that shape a person
Cognitive-behavioral
Combines techniques to help change people’s thoughts as well as behaviors. Focuses on changing irrational thoughts and change a person’s behaviors as well
social cultural
Focus is how a person’s culture and environment impact a person’s behaviors and symptoms
What is resilience?
Focus is how a person’s culture and environment impact a person’s behaviors and symptoms
posttraumatic growth
This is when a person is happier with life after they have been through a difficult experience and they appreciate different aspects of life more
