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Psychology Ch 15
Therapy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| humanistic therapy | type of mental health treatment that focuses on a person's unique experiences and potential for growth |
| person-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy developed by Carol Rogers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate client's growth |
| unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude which Carl Rogers believed would help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| exposure therapy | behavioral techniques such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy that treat anxieties by exposing people in imaginary or actual situations to the things they fear and avoid |
| systematic densitization | type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli - commonly used to treat specific phobias |
| aversive conditioning | associates an unpleasant state such as nausea with an unwanted behavior such as drinking alcohol |
| token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats |
| cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking - based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions |
| cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) |
| family therapy | therapy that treats people in the context of their family system - views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members |
| group therapy | therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction |
| Reasons why we should question the effectiveness of psychotherapy based on testimonials | people often enter therapy in crisis, clients believe that treatment will be effective, clients generally speak kindly of their therapists, clients want to believe the therapy was worth the effort |
| trauma | distressing event or experience that breaks a person's sense of security and can lead to lasting emotional and psychological consequences |
| therapeutic alliance | bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client's problem |
| drug therapy | use of medications to treat or prevent diseases and conditions |
| electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |
| Who's Crazy Here, Anyway (Rosenhan Study) | pseudopatients infiltrated a mental hospital to see the conditions that patient had to deal with - physicians more inclined to call a healthy person sick than a sick person healthy, causing self-fulfilling prophecies in the hospital |
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