PSY 1500-07 Flashcards: Treatment (Therapies)

Flashcards about different types of psychological treatments and therapies.

Antidepressant Drugs

Drugs used primarily to treat depression, but also anxiety, OCD, and PTSD.

Antipsychotic Drugs

A class of medication primarily used to manage psychosis-related conditions and symptoms; also known as neuroleptics or major tranquilizers.

Behavior Therapy

Treatment that involves education and/or medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.

Client-Centered Therapy

Another term for humanistic therapy, where the client is praised and considered the ‘expert’ in their own lives

Cognitive Therapy

Form of psychotherapy that focuses on how a person’s thoughts lead to feelings of stress, to help them change these irrational thoughts.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Physical and psychological treatments that have yet to be proven effective in randomized clinical trials, but are popular in cultural communities.

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

A type of biomedical therapy that involves using an electrical current to induce seizures in a person to help alleviate the effects of severe depression.

Family Therapy

Special form of group therapy consisting of one or more families to improve communication and understanding of each other’s feelings.

Free Association

A process of discovering your genuine thoughts, memories, and feelings by freely sharing all the seemingly random thoughts that pass through one’s mind.

Group Therapy

Treatment modality in which 5-10 people with the same issue or concern meet together with a trained clinician.

Meta analysis

Quantitative statistical analysis of several separate but similar experiments or studies to test the pooled data for statistical significance.

Psychoanalysis

Therapeutic orientation developed by Sigmund Freud that employs free association, dream analysis, and transference to uncover repressed feelings.

Psychosurgery

Surgery to remove or destroy some part of the brain considered to be responsible for some severe symptom or behavior.

Psychotherapy

Psychological treatment that employs various methods to help someone overcome personal problems or to attain personal growth.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Form of cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Resistance

Psychoanalytic term for describing the reluctance of patients to accept the therapist’s interpretations of their dreams, etc., because it would mean uncovering undesirable unconscious material.

Systematic Desensitization

Form of exposure therapy used to treat phobias and anxiety disorders by exposing a person to the feared object or situation through a stimulus hierarchy.

Token economy

Controlled setting where individuals are reinforced for desirable behaviors with a token (poker chip) that can be exchanged for items or privileges.

Unconditional Positive Regard

Fundamental acceptance of a person regardless of what they say or do; a term associated with humanistic psychology.