modules 70-73 Flashcards
(36 cards)
treatment involving psychological techniques, consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties and achieve personal growth
psychotherapy
prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology
biomedical therapy
an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
eclectic approach
Freud believed that patients free associations, resistances, dreams and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patients to gain self insight
psychoanalysis
the blocking from conscious of anxiety laden material
resistance
the analysts 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
therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences
psychodynamic therapy
a variety of therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a persons awareness of underlying motives and defenses
insight therapies
a humanistic therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate growth
client-centered therapy
empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies
active listening
a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude
unconditional positive regard
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
behavior therapy
behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
counterconditioning
behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
exposure therapy
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
systematic desensitization
an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears
virtual reality exposure therapy
a type of counterconditioning that associated an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
aversive conditioning
an opérant 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
token economy
therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
cognitive therapy
a confrontational cognitive therapy that vigorously challenged people’s illogical self defeating attitudes
rational emotive behavior therapy REBT
a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
cognitive behavioral therapy CBT
therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction
group therapy
therapy that treats the family as a system
family therapy
