Psych Chapter 15

cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).

insight's therapy

a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

exposure thearpy

behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid

EMDR

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), a therapy adored by thousands and dismissed by thousands as a sham-- "an excellent vehicle for illustrating the differences between scientific and pseudoscientific therapy techniques"

psychodynamic therapy

therapy deriving from the psychoanalyric tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self insight

behavior therapy

therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors