Chapter 13 Vocab Flashcards
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And approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problem, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Electric approach
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consist of interactions between a train therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychotherapy
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique.
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety material
Resistance
And psychoanalysis the analyst nothing suppose 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 with other relationships
Transference
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight
Psychodynamic therapy
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Insight therapies
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, excepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth
Client centered therapy
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
Active listening
A caring, excepting, nonjudgmental attitude, with Carl Rogers believed would help client to develop self-awareness and self acceptance
Unconditional positive regard
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior therapy
A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to Evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization that treats anxieties by exposing people to things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
A type of exposure therapy that associate a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
Systematic desensitization
And anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Virtual-reality exposure therapy
A type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Aversive conditioning
And operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
Token economy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Cognitive therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy will behavior therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
Family therapy
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average
Regression toward the mean
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Meta-analysis
Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
Evidence-based practice
