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Psychology 2301
Chapter 15 - Treatment (Gerrig and Zimbardo, 18th Edition)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. 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. |
| systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that assocaites a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. ie-seeing pictures of spiders will eventually desensitize you to get over your fear of spiders |
| exposure therapy | exposing people to the things they fear. ie-exposing one with a fear of snakes to snakes |
| counter conditioning | conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors (based on classical conditioning). ie-fear of elevators... pairing elevator space with calm reactions |
| aversive conditioning | counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. ie-nausea associated with drinking alcohol |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. ie-teaching one not to wash hands repeatedly (OCD) |
| cognitive therapies | 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. ie-someone fearing dogs, coming to the realization that dogs offer companionship |
| client-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy, developed by Rogers, includes active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client's growth. ie-discussion between of y patient acts certain way; based on the person being able to fix themselves |
| psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
| biomedical therapy | a prescribed medication or medical procedure that acts directly on the patient's nervous system. ie-anti-anxiety medicine, anti-depressants, etc... |
| repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. |
| electrocompulsive therapies (ECT) | biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electrical current is sent through the brain of anesthetized patient. |
| flooding | clients agree to be put directly into the phobic situation |
| contingency management | the general treatment strategy of changing behavior by modifying its consequences |
| Techniques used in psychoanalysis | Free Association and Cathersis, Resistence, Dream Analysis, Transferences and Countertransference |
| What are the goals of therapy? | Reaching a diagnosis, Proposing a probable etiology (cause of the problem), Making a prognosis |
| Social-Learning Therapy | designed to modify problematic behavior patterns by arranging correlations in which a client will observe models being reinforced for a desirable form of responding |
| Beck | depression is maintained because depressed patients are unaware of the negative automatic thoughts that they habitually form. Therapy foundations: challeng clients basic assumptions, evaluated clients accuracy of thoughts, reattribute blame, discuss alts |
| Ellis | RATIONAL-EMOTIVE THERAPY, a comprehensive system of personality change based on the transformation of irrational beliefs that cause undesirable remotional reactions |
| Gestalt Therapy | focuses on ways to unite mind and body to make a person whole, PERLS |
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