Unit 9 (pt. 2) - Psychological Disorders & Treatments - AP Psychology

Psychotherapy

Talk therapy, helps people improve mental well-being and cope with mental health conditions

Therapeutic Alliance

Connection b/w patient and therapist, the agreement to work together to improve client’s well-being.

Psychotropic Medication Therapy

Medications prescribed to treat mental disorders. Works by altering chemicals in the brain.

Deinstitutionalization

Moving mental health patients out of long-term facilities to community-based care settings.

Psychoanalysis

Freud’s idea to reach into the unconscious using free association, hypnosis, and dream interpretation.

Free association

Say whatever comes to mind, uncensored

Hypnosis

Shown effectiveness for treating pain and anxiety

Dream Interpretation

What do your dreams mean

Transference

Feelings patients felt in earlier relationships projected onto the analyst.

Humanistic Therapy

Focuses of people’s potential for self-fulfillment/self-actualization. Focuses on the present, future, and conscious thoughts.

Active Listening

Empathetic listening where the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.

Client (Person) Centered Therapy

Therapist should show genuineness, acceptance, and empathy to show unconditional positive regard.

Behavior Therapy

Focuses on the problem behaviors rather than inner thoughts, motives, or emotions.

Applied Behavioral Analysis

Therapy to help people w autism and other developmental disorders change their behaviors. Breaks down complex skills into smaller, manageable steps.

Exposure Therapies

Gradually exposing people to the object they fear in a safe environment. Considered a behavioral or cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Mary Cover Jones

Unconditioning of the fear reaction in infants.

Systematic Desensitization

One behavioral technique to extinguish anxiety is systematic desensitization where a patient is exposed to an anxiety producing stimulus gradually until it is extinct.

Aversive Conditioning

A type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior.

Aversion Therapy

Takes on the psychological problems with a conditioning procedure designed to make tempting stimulus less provocative by pairing them with an unpleasant stimuli.

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