Modules 50-52: Therapy:
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- psychotherapy
- an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
- eclectic approach
- an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
- psychoanalysis (psychodynamic)
- sigmund fruid's therapeutic technique. freud believed the patioent's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and teh therapist's interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing teh patient to gain self-insight.
- reesistance
- in psychoanalysis, the blocking form consciousness of anxiety-laden material
- interpretation
- in psychoanlysis, the analyst's noting uspposed dream meaning, resistnace,s and othe rsignificant behavior in order to promote insight
- transference
- in psychoanalysis, teh patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent.)
- free association
- just saying whatever comes into mind.
- client-centered therapy
- a humanisitic therapy, developed by carl rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listenig within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client's growth.
- active listening
- emapathic listening in which the listerner echoes, resstates, and clarifies. a feature of roger's client centered therapy.
- behavior therapy
- therapy that applies learning principles to teh elimination of unwanted behaviors.
- counterconditiong
- a behavior therapy procedure tha tconditions new responses to stimulti that trigeger unwanted behviors; based on classical conditioning. includes systematic desensitization adn aversive conditioning.
- exposure therapies
- behavior techniques, such as systematic desensitization , that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
- systematic desensitization
- a type of counterconditioing that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggerin gstimuli.commonly used to treat phobias.
- aversive conditioning
- a type of counterconditioning htat associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).
- token economy
- an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desiered behavior. a patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for various privileges or treats.
- cognitive therapy
- therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
- cognitive-behabior therapy
- a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
- family therapy
- therapy that treats the family as a system. views an individual's unwatned behavior as influenced by or directed at other family members; attemtps to guide family members toward postiive relationships and improved communication
- meta-analysis
- a procedure for statistically combining the results of manny different reserach studies.
- psychopharmacology
- the study of teh effects of drugs on mind and behavior
- electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- a biomedical therapy for severly sdepressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
- lithium
- a chemical that provides an effective drug therpay for the mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive) deisorders.
- psychosurgery
- surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
- lobotomy
- a now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontroallably emotional or violent patients. the procedure cut the nerves tha tconnect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of teh inner brain.
- psychotherapy integration
- rather than picking and choosing methods, integration advocates aim to combine them into a single, coherent system
- latent content
- the dreams underlying but censored meaning.
- psychodynamic therapists try to do what...
- to understand patients current symptoms by exploring childhood experiences
- interpersonal psychotherapy
- a brief alternative to spychodynamic therapy...aims to help people gain insight into the roots of their difficulties. and focuses on current relationships and assists people in improving thier relationship skill.
- humanistic therapists do what...
- aim to boost self fulfill ment by helping people grow in self awareness and self acceptance
- client centerest therapists focuses on
- person'a conscious self perceptions rather than therapists interpretations
- nondirective therapy
- where teh therapist listens, without judgin or interpreting, and refrains from directing the client toward certain insights
- rogers encourages therapists to exhibit three things.
- genuine, acceptance, and emapthy
- unconditional postive regard
- full acceptance of a person with whatever problems they may have.
- progressive relaxation
- where the therapists trains you to relax one muscle group after another, until you achieve a drowsy state of complete relaxation and comfort.
- behavior modification is like what...
- operant conditioning
- stress inoculation training
- changing teh people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations
- regression toward the mean
- the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
- selective serotonin reuptak inhibitor drugs (antidepressant drugs)
- SSRI (slow the synaptic vacuuming up of serotonin, (Prozac, Zoloft, PAxil))
- Antipsychotic drugs
- thorazine, cloazaril,
- antianxiety drugs
- xanax or valium
- age regression
- where people relive their child hood experiences