Treatment of Psychological Disorders Part 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 insight | understanding one's own psychological processes |
| psychoanalysis | very intensive, extensive and expensive psychodynamic therapy |
| psychodynamic psychotherapy | more conversational than psychoanalysis but the goal is still exploration of unconscious proceses |
| Free Association | patient is encouraged to say whatever comes to mind to reveal associational networks and unconscious processes involved in symptom formation |
| interpretation | therapist interprets the thoughts and feelings of the patient in order to reveal hidden conflicts and motivations |
| analysis of transference | patients bring into therapy their past troubled relationships, which are transferred to the therapist |
| systematic desensitization | the client is encouraged to confront a feared stimulus mentally while in a relaxed state |
| exposure | clients are exposed to the actual stimulus that they fear in real life |
| flooding | the client confronts the phobic stimulus all at once (no hierarchy) |
| graded exposure | the client is gradually exposed to the phobic stimulus (hierarchy) |
| virtual reality exposure | expose the client to virtual images of the feared stimulus instead of the actual stimulus |
| response prevention | all exposure techniques prevent the client from producing responses that allow avoidance of the feared stimulus |
| selective reinforcement | therapist delivers reinforcement contingent on the occurrence of a target behavior in order to increase the probability of that behavior |
| selective punishment | therapist punishes a certain target event in order to decrease the probability of that behavior |
| extinction | therapist removes a reinforcer in order to extinguish a target behavior |
| participatory modeling | therapist models the desired behavior and gradually induces the patient to participate in it |
| skills training | teach the behaviors necessary to accomplish relevant goals, often involving interpersonal competence |
| Ellis' Rational-Emotive Therapy | clients can rid themselves of the most psychological problems by minimizing their irrational thinking & maximizing rational thinking |
| Beck's Cognitive Therapy | therapist works on changing the client's cognitive distortions |
| Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | alters the maladaptive thoughts and behaviors of a client through restructuring of maladaptive belief schemas and re-training behavior |
| empty-chair technique (Gestalt) | therapist places an empty chair next to the client and asks him to imagine that the object is of his emotion in sitting in the chair |
| group therapy | multiple people work together toward mutual therapeutic goals |
| Carl Rogers | believed that humans are good and that our basic nature is to grow and mature |
| couple's therapy | focus is on the marital unit |
| structural family therapy | focuses on the organization of the family system and uses active interventions to disrupt dysfunctional patterns |
| psychotherapy integration | use of theory or technique from multiple therapeutic perspectives |
| eclectic psychotherapy | clinicians combine technique from different approaches, often to fit a particular case |
| Meta-analysis | statistical technique that allows researchers to combine findings from various studies & make comparisons btwn the effects of treatment and no treatment |
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