Ch. 15: Therapy
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 psychotherapy | interaction between trained therapist and a person seeking to overcome a psychological disorder or achieve personal growth |
| psychology's major theories | psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavioral |
| psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud; Through free association and dream analysis, uncover repressed thoughts, memories, and feelings, and bring them into conscious awareness to help patient to take responsibility for their own growth. |
| humanistic therapies | emphasize people's inherent potential for self-fulfillment; goal to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness |
| client-centered therapy | a humanistic approach created by Carl Rogers which involves active listening |
| behavior therapies | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| exposure therapies | behavior techniques that treats anxiety by exposing people (in imagination or reality) to the things they fear and avoid. |
| aversive conditioning | a behavioral technique that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. ex. antabuse |
| token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats. |
| cognitive therapies | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and emotional reactions |
| CBT | an integrative therapy that aims to alter the way people think (cognitive therapy) and the way they act (behavior therapy). |
| meta analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies |
| evidence based practice | clinical decision making that integrates the best available evidence with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences |
| biomedical therapies | drugs used for therapy |
| SSRI | Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, some effectiveness |
| ECT | a treatment for depression that does not respond to drug therapy. |
| Repetitive TMS | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. |
| Therapeutic lifestyle changes | aerobic exercise, adequate sleep, light exposure, social connection, nutritional supplements |
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