Unit 9 : Treatment to Abnormal Behavior Module 70-73 Flashcards
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psychotherapy
interaction between therapist and patient to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
biomedical approach
prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the persons physiology
physically changing the brain finctions by altering its chemistry with drugs , affecting circuit with electro conversive shock, magnetic impulses/ psychosurgery
eclectic approach
Flexible technique changes with each person
psychoanalysis
freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapists interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
resistance
blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
interpretation
noting of dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promotes insight
transferring
patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
psychodynamic theory
therapy views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight
interpersonal psychotherapy
12-16 session varioation of psychodynamic therapy that have effectively treated depression
insight therapies
increase a persons awareness of underlying motives and defenses
client-centered therapy
carl rogers; theraoists use techniques such as active listening, within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth (person centered therapy)
active listening
empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. feature of client centered therapy
unconditional positive regard
caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude which carl rogers believed would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance
behavior therapy
applies learning principles (classical/operant) to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
counter conditioning
uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; incl exposure therapy and aversive conditioning
exposure therapies
treats anxiety by exposing people (in imagination / actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid
systematic desensitization
exposure therapy; associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Sommonly used to treat phobias
virtual reality exposure therapy
anxiety treament that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their fears
aversive conditioning
association of unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol)
behavior modification
reinforcing desired behaviors and withholding reinforcement for undersized behaviors
token economy
people earn a token of somesort for exhibiting a desired behavior and exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
cognitive therapy
teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
goal : make people unlearn negative thoughts about themselves
rational emotive behavior (REBT)
vigorously challenges poeples illogical, self defeating attitudes and assumptions
stress inoculation training
teaching people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations