Chapter 17 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Biomedical Therapy
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system.
Psychotherapy
An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
Electric Approach
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences.
Sigmund Freud
developed psychoanalysis, which was the first of the psychological therapies.
Free Association
A method do exploring the unconscious in which a person says whatever comes to mind no matter how embarrassing.
Resistance
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.
Client-Centered Therapy
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth.
Carl Rodgers
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies
Active Learning
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.
Behavioral Therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
Counterconditioning
A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning.
Exposure Therapy
Exposing people to things the fear or avoid.
Systematic Desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.
Aversive Conditioning
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).
Token Economy
An 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.
Cognitive Therapies
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting.
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy.
Group Therapy
Normally consists of 6+ people that helps people know they’re not alone.
Family Therapy
Therapy that treats a family as a system
Regression Toward the Mean
The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average
