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Therapy Methods
Psychology (cengage) chapter 13 ~ methods of therapy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is psychotherapy? | A systematic interaction between client & therapist that helps client overcome psychological disorders, adjust, or develop as an individual |
| Explain the psychodynamic theory. | Assumption that psychological problems reflect early childhood experiences & conflicts |
| Psychoanalysis therapy is what? | By Sigmund Freud; therapy method that allows people to say whatever comes to mind |
| What is catharsis? | The expression of repressed feelings or impulses to allow release of associated psychic energy |
| What is psychoanalysis's free association? | The uncensored uttering of all thoughts that come to mind |
| Describe resistance. | The tendency to block repressed feelings or primitive ideas as a defense mechanism |
| Describe transference. | Responding to a person in a way similar to how you responded to a certain person from childhood |
| Explain wish fulfillment? | When dreaming, the acting-out of ideas that are usually repressed when one is conscious |
| What is an Ego Analyst? | A psychodynamically oriented therapist who focuses on conscious coping of the ego instead of the hypothesized unconscious id; client & therapist sit face-to-face |
| What is humanistic therapy? | Form that focuses on a client's subjective conscious in the 'here and now' |
| Describe Client-Centered Therapy. | Carl Rogers; emphasizes the creation of a warm therapeutic atmosphere that allows the client to engage in self-expression |
| Unconditional positive regard, empathy, & genuineness are qualities of what? | Proper client-centered therapies |
| Explain Gestalt therapy. | Fritz Perls; integrates conflicting parts of personality through directive methods |
| What is Behavior therapy? | Systematic application of learning principles to direct modification of behavior |
| What is the technique where people watch/imitate a model doing something they are scared of? | Modeling |
| Aversive conditioning is what? | Pairing the undesired action with an offensive stimuli |
| Francine Shapiro founded what therapy technique? | Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing |
| What technique only works in a controlled environment? | Token Economy |
| What technique works with operant conditioning? | Successive Approximation |
| Rehearsal & feedback in a group setting make up what technique? | Social skills training |
| BFT stands for what? | Biofeedback Training |
| What is Cognitive therapy? | Focus on client's cognitions (expectations, attitudes, beliefs) and modifying them to relieve stress; Ellis & Beck |
| What are 'cognitive errors'? | Includes selective perception, overgeneralization, blowing out of proportion (magnify), & having absolutist thinking |
| Describe Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. | REBT; by Albert Ellis; encourages client to challenge and correct their own irrational behaviors |
| Explain Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or CBT. | An approach that uses cognitive and behavioral techniques that were validated by research |
| What are benefits of group therapy? | It is economical, provides more info, group support, reassurance, hope for members, allows role play, & socialization |
| The Systems Approach is what? | Family interaction is studied and modified to allow growth as individuals and as a whole unit |
| What is Meta-Analysis? | A statistical technique for combining and averaging the results of individual research studies |
| What causes rebound anxiety? | When an individual experiences intense anxiety after quitting anti-anxiety medications |
| What does SSRI stand for? | Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors |
| What does SNRI stand for? | Serotonin-Norepinephrine Re-uptake Inhibitors |
| Electroconvulsive therapy is used for what? | To treat severe depression |
| Who created ECT? | Ugo Cerletti |
| What is psychosurgery? | Surgery intended to promote psychological changes or to relieve disordered behavior |
| Describe the Prefrontal Lobotomy. | Severing or destruction of sections of the frontal lobe of the brain |
| Who founded the lobotomy procedure? | Egas Maniz |