Chapter 16 Flashcards
Paraprofessionals
People with no professional training to provide mental health services
Therapists
People who are skilled in a particular kind of therapy
Insight therapies

Psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches with the goal of expanding awareness
Psychodynamic
Focus on the psychological roots of emotional suffering
Humanistic therapies
Therapies that emphasize the development of the human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive
Free association
Technique in which client expressed themselves without censorship of any sort
Unconditional positive regard
Expressing empathy, support, and acceptance to someone regardless of what they say, or do
Reflection
The examination of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings
Behavioural therapist
Therapist to focus on specific problem, behaviours and uncurrent variables, that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
Systematic desensitization
Patients are taught to relax they are gradually explodes to what they fear in a stepwise matter
Flooding
Intensive type of exposure therapy in which you must face your fear how to maximum level of intensity for an extended period of time
Reciprocal inhibition
Add technique in which a desired behaviour responses gradually introduced to a stimulus that causes an undesired reaction
Anxiety hierarchy
List of situations relating to your target behaviour toward you, react with varying degrees of anxiety
In vivo
Directly facing afeared object, situation, or activity in real life
Response prevention
Technique in which therapists prevent clients from performing their typical avoidance behavior’s
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Treatments that attempts to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adoptive, rational cognitions
Meta-analysis
When researchers combined the findings from multiple studies to draw an overall conclusion
Empirically supported treatments
Specific psychological treatments for a specific population/disorder that I’ve proven to be effective in controlled research
Bio medical treatments
Uses physiological treatments to treat mental disorders
Electro convulsive therapy
etc
Alice patients receive brief electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure to treat psychological problems
Psychopharmacology
Use of medicine to treat psychological problems
Psychosurgery
Brain surgery to treat psychological problems
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Widely used type of anti-depressant, mainly prescribed to treat, severe and persistent cases of depression
Anxiolytics
Drug use to reduce anxiety
