Therapy

1
Therapy

• liudexiang

2
Overview

• Insight therapies
• Behavior therapies
• Cognitive therapies
• Group therapies

3
Insight therapies

• Psychoanalysis
• Client-Centered therapy
• Gestalt therapy

4

• Psychotherapy The use of psychological
  techniques to treat personality and behavior
  disorders.

5
Insight therapies

• A variety of individual psychotherapies designed
  to give people a better awareness and
  understanding of their feelings, motivations, and
  actions in the hope that this will help them to
  adjust.

6
Psychoanalysis

• The theory of personality Freud developed as well
  as the form of therapy he invented.

7
Free association

• A psychoanalytic technique that encourages the
  person to talk without inhibition about whatever
  thoughts or fantasies come to mind.

8
Transference

• The clents carrying over to the analyst feelings
  held toward childhood authority figures.

9
Insight

• Awareness of previously unconscious feelings and
  memories and how they influence present feelins
  and behavior.

10
Client-centered therapies

• Nondirectional form of therapy developed by Carl
  Rogers that calls for unconditional positive
  regard of the client by the therapist with the
  goal of helping the client become fully
  functioning.

11
Gestalt therapy

• An insight therapy that emphasizes the wholeness
  of the personality and attempts to reawaken
  people to their emotions and sensations in the
  present.

12
Short-term psychodynamic therapy

• Insight therapy that is time limited and focused
  on trying to help clients correct the immediate
  problems in their lives.

13
Behavior therapies

• Therapeutic approaches that are based on the
  belief that all behavior, nomal and abnomal, is
  learned, and that the objective of therapy is to
  teach people new, more satisfying ways of
  behaving.

14
Systematic desensitization

• A behavioral technique for reducing a persons
  fear and anxiety by gradually associating a new
  response with stimuli that have been causing the
  fear and anxiety.

15
Aversive conditioning

• Behavioral therapy techniques aimed at
  eliminating undesirable behavior patterns by
  teaching the person to associate them with pain
  and discomfort.

16
Behavior contracting

• Form of operant conditioning therapy in which the
  client and therapist set behavioral goals and
  agree on reinforcements that the client will
  receive on reaching those goals.

17
Token economy

• An operant conditioning therapy in which people
  earn tokens for desired behaviors and exchange
  them for desired items or privileges.

18
Modeling

• A behavior therapy in which the person learns
  desired behaviors by wathching others perform
  those behaviors.

19
Cognitive therapies

• Psychootherapies that emphasize changing clients
  perceptions of their life situation as a way of
  modifying their behavior.

20
Stress-inoculation therapy

• A type of cognitive therapy that trains clients
  to cope with stressful situations by learning a
  more useful pattern of self-talk.

21
Rational-emotional therapy

• A directive cognitive therapy based on the idea
  that clients psychological distress is caused by
  irrational and self-defeating beliefs and that
  the therapists job is to chanllenge such
  dysfunctional beliefs.

22
Cognitve therapy

• Therapy that depends on identifying and changing
  inappropriately nagative and self-critical
  patterns of thought.

23
Group therapy

• Type of psychotherapy in which clents meet
  regularly to interact and help one another
  achieve insight their feelings and behavior.

24
Family therapy

• A form of group therapy that sees the family as
  at least partly responsible for the individuals
  problems and that seeks to change all family
  members behaviors to the benefit of the family
  unit as well as the troubled in dividual.

25
Couple therapy

• A form of group therapy intended to help troubled
  partners improve their problems of communication
  and interaction.

26
Eclecticism

• Psychotherapeutic approach that recognizes the
  value of a broad treatment package over a rigid
  commitment to one particular form of therapy.

27
Biological treatment

• A group of approaches, including medication,
  electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery,
  that are sometimes used to treat psychological
  disorders in conjunction with, or instead of,
  psychotherapy.

28
Antipsychotic drugs

• Drugs used to treat very severe psychological
  disorders, particularly schizophrenia.

29
Electroconvulsive therapy

• Biological therapy in which a mild electrical
  current is passed through the brain for a short
  period, often producing convulsions and temporary
  coma used to treat severe, prolonged depression.

30
Psychosurgery

• Brain surgery performed to change a persons
  behavior and emotional state a biological
  therapy rarely used today.

31
The End