Psychodynamic & Huanistic Therapies
Sigmund Freud’s therapy technique.
Psychoanalysis
An operant conditioning strategy where people earn tokens for good behavior that can later be exchanged for treats or privileges.
Token Economy
This treatment involves psychological techniques and interactions between therapist and someone seeking to overcome difficulties. No medication.
Psychotherapy
These drugs are used to control nervousness and agitation.
Antianxiety Drugs
In psychoanalysis, this term describes blocking anxiety-causing material from conscious awareness.
Resistance
Therapy conducted with multiple people rather than individuals, permitting the benefits of group interaction.
Group Therapy
This treatment uses techniques from various forms of therapy, both psychotherapy and biomedical.
Eclectic Approach
A surgery that removes brain tissue in an effort to change behavior. Very rarely used.
Psychosurgery
This treatment involves prescribed medications or procedures.
Biomedical Therapy
Name one technique used in psychoanalysis.
Dream Interpretation
Free Association
Interpretation of Resistance or Transference
Therapy that teaches new, more adaptive ways of thinking.
Cognitive Therapy
Virtual reality exposure therapy is commonly used to treat __________.
Phobias
These drugs are commonly used to treat schizophrenia and other types of thought disorders.
Antipsychotic Drugs
Therapy approach that comes from psychoanalysis, and is focused on unconscious forces and childhood experiences. Rejects the ideas of psychosexual stages and id, ego, & superego.
Psychodynamic Therapy
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer of emotions linked with another relationship to the therapist.
Transference
A popular therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Systematic desensitization is commonly used to treat __________.
Phobias
These drugs work by employing selective serotonin repute inhibitors.
Antidepressant Drugs
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses active listening with an accepting environment.
Client-Centered Therapy
A caring, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness.
Unconditional Positive Regard
A type of exposure therapy that associates a calm, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Systematic Desensitization
Name one example of a therapeutic lifestyle change.
Aerobic Exercise
Social Relationships
Sunlight
Sleep
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electrical current is sent through the brain.
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Empathetic listening in which the listener restates, echoes, and clarifies.
Active Listening