Psychology - Chapter 16 - Key Words
Psychotherapy is a psychological intervention aimed at helping individuals resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and enhance their overall quality of life. It involves structured conversations and techniques that promote insight, coping skills, and positive change.
A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives
psychotherapy
Key Terms
A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives
psychotherapy
person with no professional training who provides mental healthy services
paraprofessional
psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight
insight therapies
technique in which clients express themselves without cernsorship of any sort
free association
attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety assocaited with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
resistance
projecting intense, unrealistic feelings
transference
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives | psychotherapy |
person with no professional training who provides mental healthy services | paraprofessional |
psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight | insight therapies |
technique in which clients express themselves without cernsorship of any sort | free association |
attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety assocaited with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses | resistance |
projecting intense, unrealistic feelings | transference |
treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions | interpersonal therapy |
therapies that emphasize the development of human potential adn the belief that human nature is basically positive | humanistic therapies |
therapy centring ont he client’s goals and ways of solving problems | person-centred therapy |
therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self | Gestalt therapy |
therapy that treats more than one person at a time | group therapy |
12 step, self-help program that provides social support for achieving sobriety | AA |
family therapy approach designed to remove barriers to effective communication | strategic family intervention |
treatment in which therapists deeply involve themselves in family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions | structural family therapy |
therapists who focus on specific problem behaviours and on current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours | behavioural therapists |
patients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear in a stepwise manner | systematic desensitization |
therapy that confronts patients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear | exposure therapy |
research procedure for examining the effectiveness of isolated components of a larger treatment | dismantling |
technique in which therapists prevent clients from performing their typical avoidance behaviours | response prevention |
technique in which the therapist first models a problematic situation and then guides the client through steps to cope with it unassisted | participant modelling |
method in which desirable behaviours are rewarded with tokens that clients can exchange for tangible rewards | token economy |
treatment that uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviours | aversion therapy |
treatments tha attempt to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adaptive, rational cognitions | cognitive-behavioural therapies |
intervention for specific disorders supported by high-quality scientific evidence | empirically supported treatment (EST) |
use of medications to treat psychological problems | psychopharmacotherapy |
patients receive brief electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure to treat serious psychological problems | ECT |
brain surgery to treat psychological problems | psychosurgery |
statistical method that helps researchers to interpret large bodies of psychological literature | meta-analysis |