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AP Psyc Unit 13 - 70
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interaction between an trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychologic difficulties or achieve personal growth. |
| Biomedical thearpy | prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology. |
| Eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
| Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, & transferences ( and the therapist's interpretations of them) released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient t o gain self-insight. |
| Resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. |
| Interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. |
| Transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as a love or hatred for a parent) |
| Psychodynamic therapy | therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight. |
| Insight therapies | a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses. |
| Client-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy; developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients' growth (Also person-centered therapy) |
| Active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. |
| Unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. |