Psychodynamic Therapy
The interrelation of the unconscious and conscious mental and emotional forces that determine personality and motivation.
What is psychodynamics?
This is practice of therapists that is meant to bring a level of respect and comfortability to therapy.
What is Cultural Humility?
a type of exposure therapy generally used to treat phobias where the exposure of an unwanted stimulus is gradually increased
what is Systematic Desensitization?
What is physiology or genetics?
The act of changing your way of thinking to be more positive and less self-critical.
What is cognitive restructuring?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
a technique where the therapist will echo, restate, and clarify when speaking with a patient
what is active listening?
a behavioral technique that treats anxieties by exposing people to things they fear or avoid
what is exposure therapy?
This assumes that psychological disorders are due to a genetic vulnerability that is triggered by life experiences.
what is a the diathesis-stress model?
a type of psychotherapy that helps patient's experience healthier thinking
what is cognitive therapy?
What is the perspective that proposes that the cause of mental disorders focus on unconscious thoughts and experiences?
a technique used in humanistic therapy where the therapist keeps a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude when speaking with patients
what is unconditional positive regard?
a behavior technique where the patient earns some type of token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the token for some type of treat
what is token economy?
a biomedical therapy that send electrical currents through the brain in order to treat severely depressed patients
what is an ECT?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy combine which two perspectives?
What is behavior and cognitive?
This is a type of therapy used by psychodynamic scholars that focuses on understanding the unconscious thoughts and feelings of the client.
What is Dream Interpretation?
a humanistic therapy that uses techniques such as active listening, where the therapist will listen without judging or interpreting
what is person/client-centered therapy?
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
what is aversion therapy?
a type of neurostimulation therapy where repeated pulses of magnetic energy are sent to the brain to either stimulate or suppress brain activity
what is a TMS?
The fancy name for the "Do No Harm" principle in psychology.
What is nonmaleficence?
What is Free Association?
The definition of the humanistic perspective in psychology.
What is the perspective that focuses on mental disorders being caused by a lack of social support and being unable to fulfill one's potential?
a psychotherapeutic technique that applies the principles of conditioning to address mental disorders or developmental disabilities; could include exposure therapy, aversion therapy, and token economies
What is applied behavior analysis?
a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors
what is tardive dyskinesia?
the most commonly-used treatment method today that uses techniques from various types of therapy
what is the eclectic approach?