Types of Therapy
This type of therapy is a form of talk therapy focusing on how a person's thoughts lead to feelings of distress.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
This technique uses relaxation techniques to help a person gradually face their fear.
What is Systematic Desensitization?
This term describes the process of closing large asylums and integrating people back into the community.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
A form of therapy where a client meets one-on-one with a therapist.
What is Individual Therapy?
A therapist’s first meeting with a client to assess their needs.
What is an Intake?
This therapy involves the therapist using toys or play to help children express themselves.
What is Play Therapy?
A therapy approach where the client is encouraged to say whatever comes to mind.
What is Free Association?
Known for advocating humane treatment of the mentally ill in the 19th century.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This therapy involves multiple clients with similar issues meeting with a therapist.
What is Group Therapy?
The process where a client projects emotions from other relationships onto their therapist.
What is Transference?
Developed by Sigmund Freud, this therapy involves techniques like free association and dream analysis.
What is Psychoanalysis?
This technique helps clients replace negative associations with positive ones.
What is Counterconditioning?
The first form of psychotherapy, developed by Sigmund Freud.
What is Psychoanalysis?
This therapy involves partners in an intimate relationship working through issues.
What is Couples Therapy?
Therapy that uses a simulation rather than the actual feared object.
What is Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy?
This therapy emphasizes self-awareness and unconditional positive regard.
What is Humanistic Therapy?
The process where a client projects feelings onto their therapist.
What is Transference?
These were early institutions created for housing people with psychological disorders.
What are Asylums?
Therapy involving multiple family members working through conflicts.
What is Family Therapy?
This type of treatment involves medication or medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.
What is Biomedical Therapy?
A therapy focused on identifying and changing negative thought patterns and behaviors.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
A behavioral therapy technique using tokens for reinforcing desired behaviors.
What is Token Economy?
A movement in the mid-20th century aimed at treating mental illness in the community rather than in institutions.
What is the Deinstitutionalization Movement?
Therapy that is not chosen by the client but mandated by the court or other systems.
What is Involuntary Treatment?
The combination of two or more mental health diagnoses in one individual.
What is Comorbid Disorder?