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Myers Module 40
The Psychological Therapies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychotherapy | an interaction between therapist and someone seeking help using psychological techniques (learned related disorders) |
| Electric Approach | an approach the psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy |
| Psychotherapy Integration | combine methods into a single, coherent group |
| Psychoanalysis | Freuds therapeutic techniques. Believed that interpretation of them release previously repressed problems/feelings. |
| Free Association | used in psychoanalysis, a way of exploring the unconscious- the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind |
| Resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material |
| Interpretation | In psychoanalysis, the analyst noting supposed dream meanings, resistances and other behavior to promote insight |
| Latent content | underlying meaning of a dream |
| Transference | in psychoanalysis the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) |
| Client centered therapy | humanistic therapy designed by Carl Rogers in which therapist uses techniques such as active listening, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth |
| Psychodynamic therapist | try to understand a patient’s current symptoms by focusing on themes across important relationships, including childhood |
| Interpersonal Psychotherapy | helps people gain insight into the roots of their difficulty but its goal is to relieve symptoms now |
| Nondirective therapy | therapist listens without judging or interpreting or directing thoughts |
| Active listening | empathetic listening where listener echoes, restates and clarifies |
| Unconditional positive regard | an attitude of total acceptance toward another person |
| Behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors (phobias and sexual disorders) |
| Counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning |
| Exposure Therapies | treat anxieties by exposing people to what they fear or avoid |
| Systematic desensitization | type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggered stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobia |
| Progressive relaxation | relaxing one muscle group after another until you reach a drowsy state of complete relaxation |
| Virtual reality exposure therapy | Anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears |
| Aversive Conditioning | a type of counterconditiong that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol) |
| Behavior modification | reinforcing desired behaviors and withholding reinforcement for undesirable behaviors or punishing them |
| Token economy | operant conditioning procedure in which people receive a token for a desired behavior and can exchange for privilege or treat |
| Cognitive therapies | therapy that teaches new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting, cased on assumption that thoughts intervene between events and emotional reaction |
| Stress inoculation training | reaching people to reconstruct their thinking in stressful situations |
| Cognitive-behavior therapies | popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
| Family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members |
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