Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eclectic Approach | Therapy where the therapist combines techniques from different schools of psychology. Kind of like a buffet. |
| Psychoanalysis | Freud's therapy. Use free association, resistances, dreams and transference to gain insight into the unconscious. |
| Psychoanalytic Methods | Psychotherapists use their techniques to overcome resistance (the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material) by the client. |
| Transference | the patient transfers to the analyst emotions linked with other relationships |
| Humanistic Therapy | Focuses on people’s potential for self-fulfillment (self-actualization). Focuses on the present and future. Focuses on conscious thoughts (not unconscious ones). Take responsibility for you actions. |
| Client (Person) Centered Therapy | Developed by Carl Rogers. Therapist should use genuineness, acceptance and empathy to show unconditional positive regard towards their clients. Most widely used Humanistic technique. |
| Active Listening | Central to Roger’s client-centered therapy. Empathetic listening is where the listener echoes, restates and clarifies. |
| Behavior Therapies | Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors- Behavior, normal or abnormal is learned and can be unlearned. |
| Classical Conditioning Techniques | Counterconditioning: A behavioral therapy that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors. Two Types: Exposure Therapies & Aversive Conditioning |
| Exposure Therapies | Systematic desensitization is a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. (i.e. phobias) |
| Aversive Conditioning | A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. |
| Operant Conditioning | Token Economy: an operant conditioning procedure that rewards a desired behavior. A patient exchanges a token of some sort (earned by exhibiting the desired behavior) for various privileges or treats. |
| Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy | Noticed that depressed people were similar in the way they viewed the world. Used cognitive therapy to get people to take off the “dark sunglasses” with which they view their surroundings. |
| Cognitive Therapy | Cognitive therapists try to teach people new, more constructive ways of thinking. |
| Albert Ellis & Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | Focuses on uncovering irrational beliefs which may lead to unhealthy negative emotions and replacing them with more productive rational alternatives. |
| Stress Inoculation Training | Teaches people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations. Basically changing your self-talk. Like when you’re nervous and negative before a big exam. |
| Biomedical Therapies | Therapies aimed at the altering the body chemistry. |
| Psychopharmacology | The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior. |
| Antipsychotic Drugs | Medicines used to treat psychosis - typically in schizophrenia and bipolar psychosis patients. |
| Antianxiety Drugs | Like alcohol, they depress nervous system activity. Most widely abused drugs. |
| Antidepressant Drugs | Lift you up out of depression. Most increase the availability of norepinephrine or serotonin. |
| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) | Biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient causing a mild seizure. |
| Psychosurgery | Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy and it became very popular in the 1940’s and 50’s. Surgery that removes or destroys frontal lobe brain tissue in an effort to change behavior. |
Created by:
marissa24