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Psychotherapy
Any group of therapies, used to treat psychological disorders, that focus on changing faulty behaviors, thoughts, perceptions, and emotions that may be associated with specific disorders.
Psychodynamic
model in which behavior is explained in past experinces and motivational forces; actions are viewed as stemming from inherited instincts, biological drives, and attempts to solve needs and social requirements
Free association
The Therapeutic method in which a patient gives a running account of thoughts, wishes, physical sensations, and mental images as they occur.
Dreams-manifest
content that people remember upon awakening.
Psychotherapy-Psychodynamic
This approach views neurotic suffering as the outer symptom of inner , unresolved traumas and conflicts. Psychodynamic therapist treat mental disorder with a "Talking Cure," in which a therapist helps a person develop insights about the relation between the overt symptoms and the unresolved hidden conflicts that presumably caused them.
Psychotherapy
Any group of therapies, used to treat psychological disorders, that focus on changing faulty behaviors, thoughts, perceptions, and emotions that may be associated with specific disorders.
Psychodynamic
model in which behavior is explained in past experinces and motivational forces; actions are viewed as stemming from inherited instincts, biological drives, and attempts to solve needs and social requirements
Free association
The Therapeutic method in which a patient gives a running account of thoughts, wishes, physical sensations, and mental images as they occur.
Psychotherapy-Psychodynamic
This approach views neurotic suffering as the outer symptom of inner , unresolved traumas and conflicts. Psychodynamic therapist treat mental disorder with a "Talking Cure," in which a therapist helps a person develop insights about the relation between the overt symptoms and the unresolved hidden conflicts that presumably caused them.
Latent Content
(hidden) Content-the actual motives that are seeking expression but are so painful or unacceptable that they are expressed in disguised or symbolic form.
Carl Rogers and reason for unhappiness
Developed Client centered therapy. Healthy development is hindered by faulty learning patterns in which a person accepts the evaluation of others in place of those provided by his or her own mind and body. A conflict between the naturally positive self-image and negative external criticisms creates anxiety and unhappiness. This conflict or incongruence, may function outside of awareness, so that a person experinces feelings of unhappiness and low self worth without knowing why.
Behavior modification
The systematic use of principles of learning to increase the frequency of desired behaviors or decrease the frequency of the problem behaviors.
Systematic desensitization
A behavioral therapy technique in which a client is taught to prevent the arousal of anxiety by confronting the feared stimulus while relaxed.
Reciprocal inhibition
Wolpe taught his patients to relax their muscles then to imagine visually their feared situation. They did so in gradual steps that moved from initially remote associations to direct images. Psychologically confronting the feared stimulus while being relaxed and doing so in graduated sequence is the therapeutic technique known as systematic desensitization.
Exposure therapy
A behavioral technique in which clients are exposed to the objects or situations that cause them anxiety.
virtiual therapy
method of psychotherapy that uses virtual reality technology to treat patients with anxiety disorder and phobias where it has proven very effective.[2][3] It is now one of the primary treatments for PTSD.[3] New technology also allows for the treatment of addictions and other conditions.
Aversion therapy
A type of behavioral therapy used to treat individuals attracted to harmful stimuli; an attractive stimulus is paired with a noxious stimulus in order to elict a negative reaction to the target stimulus.
cognitive therapy
A type of psychotherapeutic treatment that attmpts to change feelings and behaviors by changing the way a client thinks about or percieves significant life experinces
Reciprocal inhibition
Wolpe taught his patients to relax their muscles then to imagine visually their feared situation. They did so in gradual steps that moved from initially remote associations to direct images. Psychologically confronting the feared stimulus while being relaxed and doing so in graduated sequence is the therapeutic technique known as systematic desensitization.
Exposure therapy
A behavioral technique in which clients are exposed to the objects or situations that cause them anxiety.
virtiual therapy
method of psychotherapy that uses virtual reality technology to treat patients with anxiety disorder and phobias where it has proven very effective.[2][3] It is now one of the primary treatments for PTSD.[3] New technology also allows for the treatment of addictions and other conditions.
Aversion therapy
A type of behavioral therapy used to treat individuals attracted to harmful stimuli; an attractive stimulus is paired with a noxious stimulus in order to elict a negative reaction to the target stimulus.
cognitive therapy
A type of psychotherapeutic treatment that attmpts to change feelings and behaviors by changing the way a client thinks about or percieves significant life experinces
Albert ellis
developed one of the earliest forms of cognitive therapy-rational-emotive therapy.
Rational-emotive therapy
A comprehensive system of personality change based on changing irrational belliefs that cause undesirable, highly charged emotional reactions such as severe anxiety
Cognitive restructuring
changing a negative persons self-statements into constructive coping statements.
Cognitive self-efficacy
Through setting attainable goals, developing realistic strategies for attaining them, and evaluating feedback realistically, you develop a sense of mastery and self efficacy.
social learning therapy
A form of treatment in which clients observe model's desirable behaviors being reinforced.
Albert Bandura
pioneered research on social learning therapy. two of his aspects imitation of models and social skills training.
biomedical therapy
treatment for a pschological disorder that alters the brain functionig with chemical or physical intervention such as drug therapy, surgery, or electroconvulsive therapy