Ch 17 Vocab Flashcards
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Psychotherapy
Any treatment used by therapists to help troubled individuals to overcome their problems.
Eclectic approach
Method that combines various kinds of therapy or combinations of therapies.
Placebo effect
The influence that a patient’s hopes and expectations have on his or her improvement during therapy
Empathy
Capacity for warmth and understanding
Group therapy
Patients work together with the aid of a leader to resolve interpersonal problems
Psychoanalysis
Therapy aimed at making patients aware of their unconscious motives so that they can gain control over their behavior
Insight
The apparent sudden realization of the solution to a problem
Free association
A method used to examine the unconscious; the patient is instructed to say whatever comes into his or her mind
Resistance
The reluctance of a patient either to reveal painful feelings or to examine long standing behavior patterns
Dream analysis
A technique used by psychoanalysts to interpret the content of patients’ dreams
Transference
The process experienced by the patient a feeling, Toward an analyst or therapist the way he or she feels or felt towards some other important figure of his or her life
Humanistic therapy
Focuses on the value, dignity, and worth of each person; holds that healthy living is the result of realizing one’s full potential.
Client-centered therapy
Reflects the belief that the client and therapist are partners and therapy
Active listening
Empathetic listening; a listener acknowledges, re-states, and clarifies the speakers thoughts and concerns.
Conditional positive regard
A therapist’s consistent expression of a sentence of the patient, no matter what the patient says and does
Behavioral modification
A systematic method of changing the way a person acts and feels
Cognitive therapy
Using Thoughts to control emotions and behaviors
Rational-Emotive therapy
A form of physiological help aimed at changing unrealistic assumptions about oneself and other people
Behavior therapy
Changing undesirable behavior through conditioning techniques
Systematic desensitization
A technique to help a patient overcome irrational fears and anxieties
Aversive conditioning
Thanks and unpleasant stay with and unwanted behaviors in an attempt to eliminate to behavior
Contingency management
Undesirable behavior is not reinforced, while desirable behavior is reinforced
Token economy
Desirable behavior is reinforced with valueless objects or points, Which can be accumulated and exchanged for various rewards
Cognitive-behavior therapy
Based on a combination of substituting healthy thoughts or negative thoughts and beliefs and changing disruptive behaviors in favor of healthy behaviors
