Chapter 16 Flashcards
A therapist helps Renata overcome her fear of water by getting her to swim in the family’s backyard pool three times a day for two weeks. The therapist’s approach to helping Renata best illustrates
Exposure therapy
Client-centered therapists emphasize the importance of
Comfortable and positive regard
Cognitive therapists are most likely to emphasize
Personal interpretation of life events
During a therapy session, Jenny was instructed by her therapist to report any ideas or memories stimulated by thoughts that have been bothering her. Jenny’s therapist was making use of a technique known as
Fee association
During her weekly therapy sessions, Sabrina will often abruptly shift the focus of her attention and lose her train of thought. A psychoanalyst would suggest that this illustrates
Resistance
Encouraging people to say positive things to themselves when they are afraid of failing best illustrates a form of
To help Janet overcome her craving for chocolate, a therapist provides her with a supply of chocolate candies that contain a harmless but very bitter-tasting substance. This approach to treatment best illustrates
aversive conditioning
psychological treatment that employs various methods to help someone overcome personal problems, or to attain personal
growth.
Psychotherapy
involves medication and/or medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.
Biomedical therapy
is often used with children since they are not likely to sit on a couch and recall their dreams or
engage in traditional talk therapy.
Play therapy
Therapy where a therapist employs principles of learning to help clients change undesirable
behaviors—rather than digging deeply into one’s unconscious
Behavior therapy
client learns a
new response to a stimulus that has previously elicited an undesirable behavior.
Counterconditioning
