CH13 Psych Notes

Psychotherapy

Treatment involving psychological techniques to help someone overcome difficulties or achieve personal growth.

Biomedical Therapy

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on a person’s physiology.

Eclectic Approach

Using techniques from various forms of therapy depending on the client’s needs.

• Adapting to the clients needs

Psychoanalysis

Freud’s therapeutic technique focusing on free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences.

Resistance

Blocking anxiety-laden material from consciousness.

Transference

The patient’s transfer of emotions linked with other relationships onto the therapist.

Client-Centered Therapy

Carl Rogers’ humanistic therapy emphasizing active listening and unconditional positive regard.

Cognitive Therapy

Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking.

• Thinking outside the box

Behavior Therapy

Therapy that applies learning principles to eliminate unwanted behaviors.

Systematic Desensitization

A type of exposure therapy that gradually reduces anxiety by pairing relaxation techniques with feared stimuli.

Aversive Conditioning

A behavioral therapy that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

• Drinking alc associated with nausea

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

A widely used therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing thoughts) with behavior therapy (changing actions).

Group Therapy

Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing social support and interaction.

• Think of AA meetings for drug and alcohol abuse

Family Therapy

Therapy that treats the family as a system, helping individuals improve communication and resolve conflicts.

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients that involves sending electrical currents through the brain.

Lobotomy

A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients.

• One of the kennedys got this

• It scrambles their brain

Psychodynamic Therapies (neo-freudian)

Try to uncover the unconscious mind.

Interpretation of Dreams

Free association is a practice of allowing the patient to discuss thoughts, dreams, memories, or words regardless of coherency.

Convenience Sample

Choosing people for a study based on easy ready availability.

• This is a biased method that is just straight lazy

Broaden and Build Theory

Describes the form and function of a subset of positive emotions.