Psychology 7E Myers Module 40 Therapy

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Psychotherapy

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treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

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Eclectic approach

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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretation of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

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Resistance

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in psychoanalysis, the the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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Interpretation

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in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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Transference

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in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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Client-centered therapy

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a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth

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Active listening

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empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.

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Behavior therapy

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therapy that applies learing principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Counterconditioning

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a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning

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Exposure therapies

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behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

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Systematic desensitization

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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears

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Aversive conditioning

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a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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Token economy

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an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desires behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges and treats

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Cognitive therapy

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therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

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Cognitive-behavior therapy

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a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

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Family therapy

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therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members