Psychoanalysis
When a patient disagrees with their therapist's interpretations or avoids talking about certain topics.
What is resistance?
A technique where the therapist listens and may reframe some of the themes of the client's words; but, they don't tell their clients what to do. It often involves use of eye-contact and head-nodding.
What is active listening?
Psychotherapy via the internet or phone.
What is cybertherapy?
Hope this doesn't make you sleepy, but this is a technique sometimes used by psychoanalysts to uncover unconscious conflicts.
What is dream analysis?
Often used to treat specific phobias by exposing the client to the phobia in a step-wise fashion.
What is systematic desensitization?
Not the same as sympathy, this technique is when the therapist can see things from the client's perspective, or understand what it may be like to "walk in their shoes."
What is empathy?
Therapies that focus on helping people to understand and accept themselves, and strive to self-actualize.
What are Humanistic Therapies?
Involves saying whatever comes to mind without censoring one's thinking.
What is free association?
This technique involves having the client address the most frightening scenario first, and often rapidly.
What is flooding?
Psychologist who created client-centered therapy.
Who is Carl Rogers?
Therapy focused not on changing individuals but recognizing patterns and systems in place, then changing those relationships and interactions.
What is Family Therapy?
He was known for describing symbols used in dream analysis in order to uncover unconscious conflicts.
Who is Carl Jung?
Therapies that increase the client's self-awareness of their own underlying motives and defenses.
What are insight therapies?
A therapy type that is considered harmful to LGBTQ+ clients and is now considered unethical/illegal for therapists to practice in the United States.
What is conversion therapy?
The tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist
What is transference?
A type of exposure therapy where the client moves their eyes rapidly back and forth while thinking of a disturbing memory.
What is Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)?
Therapies that provide a great deal of social and emotional support and may be more cost effective for clients.
What is group therapy?
The percentage of people who report that therapy is helpful.
What is 70%-95%