Unit 13: Treatment of Abnormal Behavior Flashcards
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Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve person growth.
Psychotherapy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
Biomedical Therapy
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Eclectic Approach
Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
Interpretation
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.
Psychodynamic Therapy
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
Insight Therapies
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth.
Client-Centered Therapy
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
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; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.
Counter-Conditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid.
Exposure Therapies
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.
Systematic Desensitization
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
A type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).
Aversive Conditioning
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 privleges or treats.
Token Economy
A confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions.
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
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. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.
Family Therapy
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average.
Regression Toward the Mean
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
Meta-Analysis
Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.
Evidence-Based Practice
