Ch 17 Vocab Flashcards
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Prescribed medication or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous
Biomedical therapy
An emotionally charged confiding interaction between a train therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Psychotherapy
An approach to psychotherapy that depending on the clines problems uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Eclectic approach
Freuds therapeutic technique he believed the patients free association resistances dreams and transferences released previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self-insight
Psychoanalysis
Developed psychoanalysis which was the first of the psychological therapies Freud assumed that many psychological problems are filed by childhoods residue of repressed impulses and conflicts (person)
Sigmund Freud
In psychoanalysis a method of exploring the unconscious which the person reviles and says whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing
Free association
In psychoanalysis he blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Resistance
In psychoanalysis the analysts noting supposed dream meanings resistances and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked wither other relationships
Transference
Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rodgers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine accepting empathic environment to facilitate clients growth
Client centered therapy
Believed people are basically good and endowed with self actualizing tendencies unless thwarted by an environment that inhibits grown primed for growth and fulfillment need 3 conditions genuiness acceptance and empathy (person)
Carl Rodgers
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes restates and clarifies
Active listening
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior therapy
A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors based on classical conditioning
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques such as systematic desensitization that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapy
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli commonly used to treat phobias
Systematic desensitization
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears such as flying spiders or public speaking
Virtual reality exposure therapy
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking)
Aversive conditioning
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort of exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for various privileges or treats
Token economy
Therapy that teaches people more adaptive ways of thinking and acting based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Cognitive therapies
A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Cognitive behavior therapy
Normally consist of 6-9 people of session lasting about 90 minutes clients benefit from knowing other share similar problems
Group therapy
Therapy that treats family as a system views individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced or directed at other family members attempts to guide family embers toward positive relationships and improved communication
Family therapy
The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward the average
Regression toward the mean
