Psychology - Chapter 16 - Important Concepts

_______ are more likely to seek treatment than _____.

Individuals of _____ and _____ minority are less likely to seek mental health services compared to whites.

Who benefits most from treatment?

What are the six primary approaches in psychodynamic therapy?

Instruct patients to say whatever comes to mind, no matter how meaningless it may appear

From the client’s string of free associations, the analyst forms hypotheses regarding the origin of the client’s difficulties and share them with him or her as the therapeutic relationship evolves

According to Freud, dreams express unconscious themes that influence the client’s conscious life

Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses

Can resist by skipping sesions, or drawing blanks when asked about it

Projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the patient’s past onto the therapist

Help patient process their problems

According to Carl Jung, the goal of psychotherapy is ________: the integration of opposing aspects of the personality into harmonious whole - the self

the analysts proper role is that of a participant observer

Are traumatic events truly repressed, causing difficulties?

Therapists stress the importance of assuming responsibilities for our decisions, not attributing our problems to the past, and living fully and finding meaning in the present

Non-judgemental acceptance of all feelings the client expresses. What is it? What therapy?

mirroring back the clients feelings

therapists ask clients to move from chair to chair, creating a dialogue with two conflicting aspects of their personality

Composed of peers who share a similar problem, often do not include a professional mental illness specialist

Well I guess I’m back to drinking again

Treatment assumes that many people with alcoholism will at some point experience a relapse, or slip, and resume drinking

techniques to pinpoint environmental causes of the person’s problems, establish specific and measurable treatment goals, and devise therapeutic approaches

Desensitization is based on the principle of _______ _______: clients cannot experience two conflicting responses simultaneously.

i.e. cannot be relaxed and anxious at the same time

pairing of incompatible relaxation responses with anxiety

ladder of situations that climbs from least to most anxiety provoking

Research procedure for examining the effectiveness of isolated components of a larger treatment

Jump to the top of the anxiety hierarchy and expose clients to images of the stumuli they fear the most for prolonged periods, often for an hour or even several hours

technique in which therapists prevent clients performing their typical avoidance behaviour

What is the most crucial component of flooding?

What is the name for response prevention for OCD?

therapists teach clients to avoid extreme reactions to other’s unreasonable demands, such as submissiveness on the one hand and aggressiveness on the other

Client engages in role playing with a therapist to learn and practice new skills

treatment that uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviours

Psychologically unhealthy individuals frequently engage in catastrophic thinking about their problems - this therapy tries to treat it

therapists teach clients to prepare for and cope with future stressful life events

Teach clients that negative thoughts are merely thoughts, not facts, and encourage them to accept and tolerate the full range of their feelings and act in keeping with their goals and values

Addresses the dialectic – apparent contradiction between opposing tendencies - of chancing problematic behaviour and accepting it

treatments that integrate techniques and theories from more than one existing approach

Verdict that psychotherapies are not effective

refers to the sharp cleft between psychologists who view psychotherapy as more an art than a science and those who believe that clinical practice should primarily reflect well-replicated scientific findings

a serious side effect of some older anti-psychotic medications used to treat shcizo and other psychoses

Symptoms include grotesque involuntary movements of the facial muscles and mouth and twitching of the neck, arms, and legs

tardive dyskinesia generally occurs after years of ___-dosage treatment

prescribing many medications – sometimes five or more – at the same time

ECT increase the level of in the brain and stimulates growth of brain cells in the _