Vocabulary
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
Token economy
A method that draws from many different therapy styles.
Believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transference's—and the therapist's interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight (Also known as psychoanalysis)
Sigmund Freud
therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction
Group Therapy
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
The goal is to help clients reach their own conclusions about their difficulties
We can assume patients already possess the resources for growth; they simply lack UPR or genuineness, acceptance, and empathy
Humanistic Therapy – Client-centered therapy
B.F. Skinner
therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
Emphatic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy
The goal is to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness so that the patient can deal with them.
- Assumptions. psychological problems are fueled by repressed impulses and conflicts of childhood (Freudian ideas)
Psychoanalytic Therapy - Psychoanalysis
developed rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT), that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
-Cognitive Perspective
Albert Ellis
a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
Goal: applying established learning principles to eliminate unwanted behaviors
Assumptions: self-awareness and insight are not enough to make problems go away.
-Separated into two method groups: Classical and Operant
Behavioral Therapies
Focused on client centered therapy:
- therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, emphatic environment to facilitate clients' growth.
-Humanistic perspective
Carl Rogers
a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)
Transference
The goal is to change the way client interprets events
Assumptions: how we interpret and attribute events affects how we feel about them
-focused on what people think about rather than what they do and assumed that if you change a self-defeating thought, you can change the related behavior.
-Pioneered the Socratic questioning method which helped clients reverse destructive beliefs about themselves, the world, and the future at large.
-Cognitive Therapista popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)