Module 70 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. |
| biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology. |
| eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
| psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—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 (such as love or hatred for a parent). |
| psychodynamic therapy | therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight. |
| insight therapies | therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underling motives and defenses. |
| client-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. (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 develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. |
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