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Psych Chapter 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Psychotherapy | Verbal form of therapy derived from a psychological framework that consists of one or more treatment sessions with a therapist |
| Psychoanalysis | Freud's method of psychotherapy; focuses on uncovering and working through the unconscious conflicts that he believed were at the root of psychological problems |
| Free association | A technique in psychoanalysis in which the client is encouraged to say anything that comes to mind |
| Resistance | In psychoanalysis, the blocking that occurs when therapy touches upon anxiety-evoking thoughts or feelings |
| Transferance Relationship | The tendency of clients to reenact earlier conflicted relationships in their lives in the relationships they develop with their therapists |
| Countertransferance | Tendency for therapists to relate to clients in ways that mirror the relationship's they've had with important figures in their own lives |
| 3 Qualities to create a supportive theraputic atmosphere are: | 1. Unconditional positive regard 2.Empathy 3. Genuiness |
| Systematic desensitization | A behavior therapy technique for treating phobias through the pairing of exposure in imagination to fear-inducing stimuli and deep states of relaxation |
| Fear hierarchy | An ordered series of increasingly fearful objects/situations |
| Adversive conditioning | Applies principles of classical conditioning to create an unpleasant response to stimuli associated with undesirable behaviors |
| Rational Emotive behavior therapy | A form of therapy based on identifying and correcting irrational beliefs that are thought to underlie emotional and behavioral difficulties |
| Cognitive therapy | Form of therapy that helps clients recognize and correct distorted patterns associated with negative emotional states |
| Eclectic Therapy | A therapeutic approach that draws upon principles and techniques representing different schools of therapy |
| Group Therapy | A form of therapy in which clients are treated within a group format |
| Meta-analysis | A statistical technique for averaging results across a large number of studies |
| Nonspecific factors | General features of psychotherapy, such as attention from a therapist and mobilization of positive expectencies and hope |
| Tricyclics | A class of antidepressant drugs that increase availability of neurotransmitters in brain by interfering with the reuptake of these chemicals by transmitting neurons |
| Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAO) | Class of antidepressant drugs that increase availability of neurotransmitters in the brain by inhabiting an enzyme, monoamine oxydase, that breaks down in the synapse |
| Selective Serotonin reuptake inhibitors | Class of antidepressant drugs that work on increasing the availability of the neurotransmitter serotonin by interfering with its reuptake |
| Psychosurgery | Brain surgery used to control violent and deviant behavior |
| Behavior Therapies | Action therapies based on the principles of classical and operant conditioning and aimed at changing disordered behavior without concern for the original causes of such behavior |
| Gestalt Therapy | Form of directive insight therapy in which the therapist helps clients accept all parts of their feelings and subjective experiences, using leading questions and planned experiences such as role-playing |
| Person centered therapy | A non directive insight therapy in which the client does all the talking and the therapist listens |
| Manifest content | The actual content of one’s dream |
| Latent content | The symbolic or hidden meaning of dreams |
| Cognitive Therapy | Therapy in which the focus is on helping clients recognize distortions in their thinking and replace distorted, unrealistic beliefs with more realistic, helpful thoughts |
| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Action therapy in which the goal is to help clients overcome problems by learning to think more rationally and logically |
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