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Unit #13 Treatment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eclectic Approach | An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
| Psychotherapy | Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. |
| Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences--and the therapist's interpretations of them--released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to 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 (sch as 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 the client'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 called "person-centered therapy.") |
| Active listening | Empathetic 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. |
| Behavior therapy | Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |