Types of Therapy
This therapy, created by this person, focuses on bringing unconscious conflicts into conscious awareness.
This psychologist developed classical conditioning, establishing the foundations for future therapeutic behavioral interventions.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This class of drugs is commonly prescribed for schizophrenia.
What are antipsychotics drugs?
The tendency of people to improve simply because they believe they are receiving treatment is called this effect.
What is placebo effect?
This type of therapy involves several clients meeting together with one or more therapists.
What is group therapy?
This type of therapy uses active listening and unconditional positive regard.
What is humanistic? (also acceptable...client-focused, or client-centered)
This behavioral therapy uses rewards to encourage desired behaviors. This stems from the form of behaviorism that involves positive and negative reinforcement, as well as punishment.
What is token economy? What is operant conditioning?
This previously controversial biomedical treatment induces a brief seizure using electrical currents.
What is ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)?
This term refers to the emotional bond between therapist and client.
What is therapeutic alliance? (also accept therapeutic rapport or relationship)
This therapy focuses on improving relationships and communication within nuclear units (parents and/or guardians, siblings).
What is family therapy?
This therapy helps clients change harmful thinking patterns and alter their behaviors.
What is CBT?
If someone is struggling with a fear of elevators, the person might seek out this type of therapy.
This psychosurgical procedure destroys or removes brain tissue to change behavior.
What is a lobotomy (also accept psychosurgery).
This type of research compares treatment groups with control groups to determine therapy effectiveness.
What is randomized clinical trial/controlled experiment?
Programs like Alcoholics Anonymous are examples of this kind of support group.
What are self-help/support groups?
This behavioral therapy gradually exposes a person to a feared object or situation; it involves relaxation training, creating a fear hierarchy, and gradual exposure. It's built on the foundations of this technique, discovered by Ivan Pavlov.
What is systematic desensitization?
What is classical conditioning?
This individual's therapeutic approach focused on identifying and changing negative patterns of thought, specifically to treat depression.
Who is Aaron Beck?
This class of antidepressants works by increasing serotonin levels in the brain and includes medications such as these examples.
(3 parts to this question)
What are SSRIs?
What are Prozac or Zoloft
This phenomenon occurs when clients unknowingly place feelings about important people onto the therapist. This occurs when therapists unknowingly displace their feelings onto the client.
What is transference and countertransference?
This perspective argues that psychological disorders are influenced by factors such as genetics, unhealthy thinking patterns and behaviors, as well as environmental struggles, such as systemic issues.
What is the biopsychosocial approach?
Psychoanlytic therapy involves this process, where one shares whatever immediately comes to mind, and then later processes resistance, as well as any feelings projected onto the therapist, known as this.
What is free association and transference?
This cognitive therapist developed Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).
Who is Albert Ellis?
This newer treatment for severe depression uses magnetic pulses to stimulate brain regions.
What is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?
Meta-analyses of psychotherapy outcomes consistently show that the average treated client is better off than about 75% of untreated individuals with similar disorders, a finding known as this statistical effect.
What is the “Dodo bird verdict” effect? (or general efficacy of psychotherapy indicated by effect size comparisons)
Critics argue that some alternative therapies lack this, discrediting it's efficacy.
What is empirical evidence/scientific validation?