Unit 8, Part 2 Flashcards
psychotherapy
treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
biomedical therapy
prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.
eclectic approach
an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Sigmund Freud
created the first major psychological therapy called psychoanalysis.
resistance
in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique used in treating psychological disorders. 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.
transference
in psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a person)
interpretation
in psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
psychodynamic therapy
therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.
insight therapies
therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
Carl Rogers
used a humanistic technique called client-centered therapy.
client-centered therapy
a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist used techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathetic environment to facilitate client growth. The client leads the discussion, and the therapist listens without judging or interpreting. Also called person-centered therapy.
unconditional positive regard
a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
active listening
empathetic listening in which the listener echoes. restates, and clarifies. a feature of Roger’s client-centered therapy.
unconditional positive regard
a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
behavior therapy
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
counterconditioning
behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; including exposure therpies aversive conditioning.
Mary Cover Jones
behavioral psychologist who used counterconditioning.
