Unit 7 Vocabulary Flashcards
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Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
Biomedical therapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychotherapy
An Approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients 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; 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
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst,of emotions linked with other relationships such as love or hatred for a parent
Transference
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 motive and defenses
Insight therapies
A Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine excepting empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth
Client centered therapy
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies; a feature of Rogers’ client centered therapy
Active listening
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
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques such as a systematic desensitization and virtual-reality exposure therapy that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
A type of exposure therapy the 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 counterconditioning 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 tickets for various privileges of treats
Token economy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events in our emotional reactions
Cognitive therapy
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 individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members
Family therapy
