Chapter 17 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system
Psychotherapy
Emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Eclectic approach
Approach to psychotherapy that depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis
Freuds therapeutic technique looking at the unconscious
Sigmund freud
Developed psychoanalysis, assumed that many psychological problems are fueled by childhood residue impulses and conflicts
Free association
Psychoanalysis, method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
Resistance
Psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Interpretation
Analyst using dreams meanings resistances and other significant behaviors to understand an individual’s behaviors
Transference
Psychoanalysis, the patients transfers to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (love/hate for a parent
Client-centered therapy
Humanistic theory, Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting empathic environment to facilitate clients growth
Carl Rogers
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies
Behavior 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
Exposure therapy
Behavioral , that treat anxieties by exposing people to the thing they fear/avoid
Systematic desensitization
Type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasure relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli, commonly used to treat phobias
Virtual reality exposure therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears (spiders)
Aversive conditioning
Type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Token economy
Operant conditioning procedure in which people earn token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can be later exchange the tokens for various privileges/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
Family therapy
treats the family as a system. Therapy guides family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.
Regression toward the mean
Tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
Meta-analysis
Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
