Chapter 17 Vocab Flashcards
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Biomedical Therapy
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous systems.
Psychotherapy
An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
Eclectic Approach
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Psychoanalysis
Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist’s interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.
Free Association
In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, 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 (such as love or hatred for a parent).
Client-centered Therapy
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate client’s growth.
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 techniques, such as systematic desnsitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
Systematic Desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant elated 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. Such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.
Aversive Conditioning
A type of counter-conditioning 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; based on the assumptions that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
Cognitive-behavior Therapy
A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
Group Therapy
Frequently used for people experiencing family conflicts or those whose behavior is distressing to others. Group sessions allow people both to discover that others have problems similar to their own and to receive feedback as they try out new ways of behaving.
Family Therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.
Meta-analysis
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
A psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic experiences.
Light Exposure Therapy
A way to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) by exposure to artificial light. Seasonal affective disorder is a type of depression that occurs at a certain time each year, usually in the fall or winter.
