Chapter 18 Flashcards
(42 cards)
Psychological assessment
An evaluation of the patients psychological and mental health
Psychotherapy
Professional treatment for psychological disorder through techniques designed to encourage communication of conflicts and insight
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychological treatment based on Freudian theories in which the therapist helps the patient explore the unconscious dynamics of personality
Free association
The therapist listens while the client talks about whatever comes to mind, without any censorship or filtering
Dream Analysis
To analyze the symbolism of the dreams in an effort to probe the uncoisous thoughts of the client and interpret its significance
Insight
An understanding of the unconscious causes of the disorder
Transference
Patient unconsciously redirects feelings experienced in an important personal relationship toward the therapist
Humanistic Therapy
Psychological treatment based on the personality theories of Carl Rogers. Focuses on self realizations
Client centered therapy
an approach to treatment in which the client is helped to grow and develop as the therapist provides a comfortable, nonjudgmental environment.
Therapeutic Alliance
Relationship between the client and therapist in genuine. No barriers
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Structured Approach to treatment that attempts to reduce psychological disorders throughout systematic procedures based on cognitive and behavioural principles
Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Psychological treatment that is based on learning
Exposure Therapy
behaviour therapy that is based on classical conditioning principle of extinction. In which people are confronted with a feared stimulus with the goal of decreasing their emotional responses to it
Flooding
A client is exposed to the source of his fear all at once
Systematic Desensitization
behavioural treatment that combines imagining or experiencing the feared object or situation with relaxation exercises
Counterconditioning
second incompatible response (relaxation; e.g., through deep breathing) is conditioned to an already conditioned response (the fear response).
Virtual reality CBT
the therapist uses computer-generated, three-dimensional, lifelike images of the feared stimulus in a systematic desensitization program.
Aversion Therapy
Type of behaviour therapy in which positive punishment is used to reduce the frequency of an undesirable behaviour
Cognitive therapy
a psychological treatment that helps clients identify incorrect or distorted beliefs that are contributing to disorder.
Eclectic Therapy
an approach to treatment in which the therapist uses whichever techniques seem most useful and relevant for a given patient.
Biomedical Therapies
Treatments designed to reduce psychological disorder by influencing the action of the CNS
Antidepressant Medications
Drugs designed to improve moods
Monamine oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)
medications work by increasing the amount of serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine at the synapses
Selective seatonin reuptake Inhibitors
designed to selectively block the reuptake of serotonin at the synapse, thereby leaving more serotonin available in the CNS.
