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Chapter 17 Therapies
ap psych vocab.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 thechniques from various forms of therapy |
| Psychoanalysis | Freud's belief that patient's free association, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight |
| Resistance | the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
| Interpretation | the analyst's noting supposed supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight |
| Transferance | the patient's transfer to the analtyst of emotions linked with other relationships |
| Client-Centered Therapy | humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth |
| active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning |
| exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people |
| systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli (treating phobia) |
| aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with unwanted behavior (alcohol) |
| token economy | an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior |
| 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-behavior therapy | a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
| family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system |
| meta-analysis | a procedure for statistcally combining the results of many diff.research studies |
| psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind & behavior |
| lithium | a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar disorders |
| electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severly depressed patioents in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anestheized patient |
| psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
| lobotomy | a now0rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients |
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