AP Psychology Module 70
Unconditional Positive Regard
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
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).
Insight Therapies
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness f underlying motives and defenses.
Eclectic Approach
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Active Listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
Resistance
In psychoanalysis the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred or a patient).
Biomedical Therapy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology.
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believes that patient's free associations resistance, dreams, and transference- and the therapist's interpretations of them- released previously repressed feelings, allowing e patient to gain self-insight.
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.
Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
