Freud’s therapeutic technique. He believed that the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety material
Resistance
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychotherapy
Therapeutic approach derived from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self insight
Psychodynamic therapy
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions of emotions linked with other relationships
Transference
In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed Dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events to promote insight
Interpretation
Emphasizes people’s innate potential for self-fulfillment; attempt to reduce inner conflicts that interfere with natural development and growth
Humanistic perspective
A humanistic therapy developed by Rogers where the therapist uses a technique such as ascribe listening with a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to promote clients growth
Person centered therapy
A therapeutic approach that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior therapy
System of behavior modification based on the systematic positive reinforcement of target behavior
Token economy
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude which Rogers believed would help clients develop self awareness and self acceptance
Unconditional positive regard
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
Counter conditioning
Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear
Exposure therapies
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
Systematic desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Aversive conditioning
Therapist captures the essence of what a client is thinking and feeling; part of humanistic therapy
Reflection
Insist that something should, ought, or must be different than the way it is
Irrational beliefs
Therapy involves clients cognitive trials
Aaron Beck’s therapy approach
Cognitive triad
Changing negative views of themselves, their world, their future
Certain ways of thinking that people regularly use to view life in an unreal way
Cognitive distortions
Cog Dis: from one isolated event, you make a general, universal rule
Key words: never, always, all, every, nobody
Overgeneralization
Cog Dis: using sweeping, negative labels; negative judgements about a person’s appearance, performance or intelligence; name calling
Inflammatory/ Global Labeling
Cog Dis: thinks big things are worse than they really are; blowing out of proportion; key words: awful, terrible, disgusting
Magnifying/catasrophizing
Cog Dis: making rules out of your preferences; key words: must, ought to, should, have to, need to; perfectionism
Demanding/ Commanding
