Chapter 17 Flashcards
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on patients nervous system
Biomedical Therapy
Emotionally charged confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Psychotherapy
Depending on clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Eclectic Approach
Freuds therapeutic technique. Believed free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings
Psychoanalysis
Developed psychoanalysis, first of psychological therapies. Assumed that many psychological problems are fueled by childhoods residue of repressed impulses and conflicts
Sigmund Freud
A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxed and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
Free Association
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Resistance
Analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Transference
Humanistic therapy, Carl Rogers, use techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment that facilitate clients growth
Client Centered Therapy
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self actualizing tendencies
Carl Rogers
Empathetic listening in which the listener echos, restates, and clarifies. A feature of client centered therapy
Active listening
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Exposure therapy and averse conditioning
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization that treats anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure Therapy
