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AP Psych Unit XIII (13)
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Terms in this set (35)
Psychotherapy
- A trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome difficulties or achieve personal growth
Biomedical Thearpy
- Offers medication or other biological treatments
- Can be used with psychotherapy
- Example, Jamison received psychotherapy in her meeting with her psychiatrist, and she took medications to control her wild mood swings
Eclectic Approach
- Using a blend of psychotherapies
- Each is built on one or more of psychology's major theories: psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive
- Most of these techniques can be used one-on-one or in groups
Psychoanalysis
- First of the psychological therapies
- Free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
Resistance
- The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Term
Psychodynamic Therapy
Definition
- Don't talk much about id, ego, and superego
- In these meetings, patients explore and gain perspective into defended-against thoughts and feelings
- Face to face therapy
Location
Insight Therapies
- A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses
- Boosts people's self-fulfillment
- Taking immediate responsibility for one's feelings and actions
Term
Client-Centered Therapies
Definition
- A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
Location
Term
Behavior Therapy
Definition
- Doubt the healing power of self-awareness
- You can become aware of why you are highly anxious during tests and still be anxious
- Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Location
Counterconditioning
- Falls under classical conditioning techniques
- Evokes new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
- Unlearning a fear
Exposure Therapies
- Fear being countered
- Expose people to what they normally avoid or escape
- Facing a fear
Systematic Desensitization
- A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
- You cannot be simultaneously anxious and relaxed
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
- An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
- Lifelike series
- Offers an efficient middle ground
Aversive Conditioning
- A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
- The goal is substituting a negative response for a positive response to a harmful stimulus
- It seeks to condition an aversion to something the person should avoid
Token Economy
- When people display appropriate behavior they receive a token or plastic coin as a positive reinforcer