Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive therapy is based upon the idea that thoughts and behaviors are significantly influenced by this.
What are thoughts?
Behavioral therapy is rooted in this psychological theory of learning.
What is behaviorism?
This approach focuses on uncovering unconscious conflicts and childhood experiences that influence current behavior.
What is the psychodynamic approach?
This approach emphasizes acceptance, personal growth, and helping people better understand themselves rather than focusing only on symptoms.
What is the humanistic approach?
Cognitive therapy is often combined with this other type of therapy, commonly used to treat depression, anxiety, OCD, etc.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
The encouragement of positive behavior through incentives and feedback.
What is reinforcement?
This technique involves patients saying whatever comes to mind without censorship to reveal unconscious thoughts.
What is free association?
This effect is experienced by humanistic patients, and while commonly considered negative, heavily contributes to patients achieving their goals.
What is the placebo effect?
This process involves identifying and challenging negative, distorted thoughts.
What is cognitive restructuring?
This type of behavioral therapy helps individuals helps individuals overcome fears related to specific situations or objects.
What is exposure therapy?
Developed by Sigmund Freud, this theory emphasizes the role of the unconscious mind, early childhood, and internal conflicts.
What is psychoanalysis?
These 4 types of therapy fit under the humanistic therapy umbrella.
What are person-centered therapy, gestalt therapy, emotion-focused therapy, and occasionally existential therapy?
A therapeutic technique in which Individuals keep a log of their automatic thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in various situations.
What are thoughts records?
The work of these two psychologists inspired the teachings of behavioral therapy.
Who are John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov?
This theorist broke from Sigmund Freud and emphasized the collective unconscious and archetypes.
Who is Carl Jung?
This psychologist proposed that effective therapy depends on three core conditions: accurate empathy, unconditional positive regard, and therapist authenticity, and that clients possess an innate capacity for self-directed growth.
Who is Carl Rogers?
A process in which therapists ask open-ended, probing questions to examine a client’s thought process.
What is Socratic questioning?
A technique in which the therapist acts out a non-fearful response to a negative situation, and the person’s anxiety may be reduced by imitating the non-fearful response.
What is modeling?
This Freudian structure operates on the reality principle and mediates between instinctual desires and moral constraints.
What is ego?
Theorized by L. I. Schor, this concept explains how individuals assign personal meaning to their experiences and how that shapes how they understand their problems.
What is apperception?