Chapter 15 - Therapy

Systematic desensitization

A behavioral therapy technique in which a client learns to prevent the arousal of anxiety by gradually confronting the feared stimulus while relaxed

Behavior Therapies

A group of techniques using principles of learning to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behaviors

Humanistic therapies

A group of therapies that emphasize maximizing a clients inherent capacity for self-actualization by providing a non-judgmental, accepting atmosphere

Psychodynamic therapies

A group of therapies that focus on conscious processes and current problems, a briefer, more directive, and more modern form of psychoanalysis.

Cognitive therapies

A group of therapies that treat problem behaviors and mental processes by focusing on faulty thought processes and beliefs

Interpretation

A psychoanalyst's explanation of a clients free associations, dreams, resistance, and transference; more generally, any statement by a therapist that presents a problem in a new way

Cognitive restructing

A therapeutic process designed to identify, dispute, and change irrational or maladaptive thought patterns

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT)

A therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing faulty thinking) with behavior therapy (changing maladaptive behaviors)

Aversion therapy

A type of behavioral therapy that pairs an unpleasant stimulus with a maladaptive behavior in order to elicit a negative reaction to the target stimulus

Modeling therapy

A type of therapy characterized by watching and imitating models that demonstrate desirable behaviors

Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Albert Ellis' cognitive therapy that focuses on eliminating negative emotional reactions through logic, confrontation, and examination of irrational beliefs Activating event, irrational beliefs, emotional consequences, and disputing irrational beliefs

Empathy

An insightful awareness and ability to share another inner experience

Psychotherapy

Any of a group of therapies used to treat psychological disorders used to improve psychological functioning and adjustment to life

Genuiness

Authenticity or congruence; the awareness of one's true inner thoughts and feelings, and the ability to share their honesty with others

Client-centered therapy

Carl Roger's humanistic approach to therapy, which emphasizes the clients natural tendency to become healthy and productive; techniques include empathy, unconditional positive regard, genuineness, and active listening

4 important humanistic therapy qualities

Empathy, unconditional positive regard, genuineness, and active listening

5 methods for psychoanalysis

Free association, dream analysis, analysis of resistance, analysis of transference, and interpretation

Psychoanalysis therapy

Freud's therapeutic technique for analyzing and bringing unconscious thoughts and conflicts into conscious awareness

3 approaches to therapy

Talk, behavior, and biomedical

Unconditional positive regard

Rogers term for love and acceptance of another with no conditions attached

Dream analysis

In psychoanalysis, interpretation of the underlying true meaning of dreams to reveal unconscious processes

Free association

In psychoanalysis, reporting whatever comes to mind without monitoring its contents

Analysis of resistance

In psychoanalysis, the client's inability or unwillingness to discuss or reveal certain memories, thoughts, motives, or experiences

Analysis of transference

In psychoanalysis, the process by which a client attaches (transfers) to a therapist feelings formerly held toward some significant person who figured in a past emotional conflict

Active listening

Listening with total attention to what another is saying; it includes reflecting, paraphrasing, and clarifying what the person says and means