Therapy Approaches
Therapy aimed at helping people understand the underlying motives behind their feelings and actions.
What is Insight therapy?
Therapy that focuses directly on changing maladaptive behaviors rather than uncovering their hidden, historical causes.
What is Action therapy?
Making a mountain out of a molehill by blowing a minor mistake drastically out of proportion.
What is Magnification?
The broad, general term for using medical methods to relieve the symptoms of psychological disorders.
What is Biomedical therapy?
Treating an entire group of related individuals as a single unit to improve communication and resolve conflicts.
What is Family therapy?
The specific use of learning techniques to decrease undesirable behaviors and increase desirable ones.
What is Behavior modification?
Assuming your boss's bad mood is entirely your fault, despite having no interaction with him today.
What is Personalization?
The specific branch of psychology and medicine focusing on how drugs affect the mind, mood, and behavior.
What is Psychopharmacology?
This specific therapy, heavily relying on free association, dream interpretation, and uncovering the unconscious.
What is Freudian psychoanalysis?
These therapies help reduce anxiety and extinguish phobias by systematically safely confronting a feared stimulus.
What are Exposure therapies?
Believing that because one romantic relationship failed, absolutely all of your future relationships are doomed to fail forever.
What is Overgeneralization?
These specific medications are utilized in psychopharmacology to treat severe psychological symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and bizarre behavior.
What are Antipsychotic drugs?
This warm, caring, and empathetic relationship between the therapist and client is considered the most crucial factor in determining whether therapy will be successful.
What is the Therapeutic alliance?
While insight therapy might ask a client to analyze their childhood trauma to understand their fear of dogs, this broad category of therapy would just start having the client interact with dogs to fix the issue.
What is Action therapy?
Focusing entirely on one negative detail, like a single typo, while ignoring the fact that the rest of the essay received a perfect score.
What is Selective thinking?
Ignoring positive events entirely and making them seem entirely unimportant, often paired with magnification.
What is Minimization?
This humanistic approach, developed by Carl Rogers, focuses on providing a non-directive environment, unconditional positive regard, and deep empathy.
What is Rogers’s person-centered approach?
Behavior modification is built on the foundational principles of these two types of conditioning.
What are Classical and Operant conditioning?
Jumping to a negative conclusion without any actual factual evidence to support it.
What is an Arbitrary inference?
This modern psychosurgery uses an MRI to guide an electrode wire to destroy a specific, very small area of brain cells, often used as a last resort for severe OCD or depression.
What is a Bilateral anterior cingulotomy?