Biblical Counseling Quiz 2

Approaches to pyschotherapy fall into how many categories?

5

What are the 5 broad pyschotherapy categories?

1) Pyschoanalysis

2) Behavior therapy

3) Cognitive therapy

4) Humanistic therapy

5) Integrated or Holistic therapy

Who developed psychoanalysis?

Sigmund Freud

What is psychoanalysis?

Focuses on changing problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconsciuous meanings and motivations

Who developed behavior therapy?

Ivan Pavlov

What is behavior therapy?

Focuses on normal and abnormal behaviors through classical conditioning, desentizing, and operant conditioning

Behavior modification

A treatement approach based on principles of operant conditioning that replaces undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through postive or negatice reinforcement

Who developed the principles of behavior modification?

Skinner

Postive/Negative reinforcements

Encourages good behavior or removes a stimulus that causes a bad behavior

Positive/Negative punishment

Adds a consequence to discourage a certain behavior OR adds reward

Extinction

“disengagement” or “planned ignoring”

eliminates the incentive for unwanted behavior by withholding the expected attentive response

EXAMPLE: time-out

Who developed cognitive therapy?

Ellis and Beck

What is cognitive therapy?

Focuses on what people THINK. Therapists believe that its dysfunctional thinking that leads to dysfunctional emotions/behaviors. By changing the clients throughts, changes in feelings/actions will follow.

Which philiosophers developed humanistic therapy?

Satre, Buber, and Kierkegaard

What is humanistic therapy?

Focuses on people’s capacity to make rational choices and develop to their maxium potential

What is Holistic therapy?

Blends elements from different approaches and tailors treatment according to each clients need