Chapter 16 - Psychological and Biological treatments Flashcards
What is psychotherapy?
A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives
What is paraprofessional?
A person with no personal training who provides mental health services
What are insight therapies?
Psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight
What are humanistic therapies?
Therapies that emphasize the development of human potential and the belief that human nature is basically posititve
What is free association?
Technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort
What is resistance?
Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
What is transference?
Projecting intense, unrealistic feelings
What is interpersonal therapy (IPT)?
Treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts and life transitions
What is person-centred therapy?
Therapy centring on the client’s goals and ways of solving problems
What is Gestalt therapy?
Therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self
What is group therapy?
Therapy that treats more than one person at a time
What is alcoholics anonymous?
12-step, self-help program that provides social support for achieving sobriety
What is a strategic family intervention?
Family therapy approach is designed to remove barriers to effective communication
What is structural family therapy?
Treatment in which therapists deeply involve themselves in family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions
What are behavioural therapists?
Therapists who focus on specific problem behaviours and on current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviours
