A general term for any treatment process aimed at dealing with mental disorders or coping with problems of living.
100
When might you want to seek a professionally trained therapist?
When the people you are close to cannot offer the help and support you need
100
What do insight therapies attempt to do?
Change people on the inside or changing the way they think and feel.
100
Describe behavior therapy.
Any form of psychotherapy based on the principles of behavioral learning, especially operant conditioning and classical conditioning
100
Describe cognitive-behavioral therapy
A newer form of psychotherapy that combines the techniques of cognitive therapy with those of behavior therapy.
200
Define talk therapy
Psychotherapies that focus on communicating and verbalizing emotions and motivations to understand their problems
200
What did people in medieval times interperate mental disorder as?
The work of devils and demons
200
What are the three types of insight therapies?
Psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive
200
What ideas are the basis for systemic desensitization?
Exposing the patient to an anxiety provoking stimulus to extinguish their fear
200
What does REBT stand for?
Rational-emotive behavior therapy
300
Define psychoanalysis
The form of psychodynamic therapy developed by Freud whose goal is to release conflicts and memories from the unconscious
300
Describe biomedical therapies
Treatments that focus on altering the brain, especially with drugs, psychosurgery, or electro-convulsive therapy
300
Describe the differences between Freudian psychoanalysis and Neo-Freudian therapies
Neo-Freudians have made a break on the significance of the ego, the influence of life experiences occurring after childhood, and the role of social needs and interpersonal relationships
300
What form of conditioning is token economy based off of?
Operant conditioning
300
What do neurotic goals and values lead people to do?
To base their lives on a set of unrealistic values and unachievable goals.
400
Define reflection of feeling
Carl Rogers' technique of paraphrasing the client's words attempting to capture the emotional tone expressed
400
Describe the therapeutic process
Identifying the problem, identifying the cause of the problem or the conditions that maintain the problem, and deciding on and carrying out some form of treatment
400
What is the value of group therapy?
It particularly deals with problems of social behavior and relationships
400
In what cases is aversion therapy useful?
To help those who are attracted to stimuli that are harmful or illegal
400
What research shows that cognitive-behavioral therapy may also change the brain itself?
PET scans of the brain gradually show that over time, the part of the brain responsible for fear gradually becomes less active
500
Define contingency management
An operant conditioning approach to changing behavior by altering the consequences, especially rewards and punishments of behavior
500
Name 5 of the 7 main types of professional helpers.
Counseling psychologist, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychiatric nurse practitioners, clinical social workers, or pastoral counselers
500
What is the key to therapeutic change in cognitive therapy?
Developing rational thinking
500
Describe participant modeling
A social learning technique in which a therapist demonstrates and encourages a client to immitate a desired behavior
500
What does this approach assume?
That an irrational self-statement often underlies maladaptive behavior.