Psychology: Therapy

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Therapy

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A prescribed medication or medical procedure that acts directly on the patient's nervous system

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Eclectic Approach

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Using a blend of therapies

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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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Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapist's interpretations of them-release previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-interest

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Resistance

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

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Interpretation

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In psychoanalysis, the analyst's notingg 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 (such as love or hatred for a patient)

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seks to enhance self-insight

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Insight Therapies

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A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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Free Association

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In a relaxed state during psychoanalysis, the patient is expected to communicate all thoughts- no matter how shameful, embarrassing, or irrelevant

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Client-centered Therapy

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In this nondirective therapy, the therapist listens to the patient's conscious self-perceptions without judging, interpreting, or directing the perston toward certain insights.
This is a humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers

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Active Listening

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Echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what the person expresses (verbally or nonverbally) and acknowledging the expressed feelings

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

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Behavior Therapy

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Rejects the idea that self-awareness has healing powers... (knowing of an upcoming exam causes anxiety)

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Counterconditioning

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A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

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Exposure Therapies

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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treats anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to 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