Therapy

Kannan K
Overview
Insight therapies
Behavior therapies
Cognitive therapies
Group therapies
Insight therapies
Psychoanalysis
Client-Centered therapy
Gestalt therapy


Psychotherapy :The use of psychological techniques to treat
personality and behavior disorders.
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.
Psychoanalysis
The theory of personality Freud developed as well as the form
of therapy he invented.
Free association
A psychoanalytic technique that encourages the person to talk
without inhibition about whatever thoughts or fantasies come
to mind.
Thansference
The clents carrying over to the analyst feelings held toward
childhood authority figures.
Insight
Awareness of previously unconscious feelings and memories
and how they influence present feelins and behavior.
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.
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.
Short-term psychodynamic
therapy
Insight therapy that is time limited and focused on trying to
help clients correct the immediate problems in their lives.
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.
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.
Aversive conditioning
Behavioral therapy techniques aimed at eliminating
undesirable behavior patterns by teaching the person to
associate them with pain and discomfort.
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.
Token economy
An operant conditioning therapy in which people earn tokens
for desired behaviors and exchange them for desired items or
privileges.
Modeling
A behavior therapy in which the person learns desired
behaviors by wathching others perform those behaviors.
Cognitive therapies
Psychootherapies that emphasize changing clients
perceptions of their life situation as a way of modifying their
behavior.
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.
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.
Cognitve therapy
Therapy that depends on identifying and changing
inappropriately nagative and self-critical patterns of thought.
Group therapy
Type of psychotherapy in which clents meet regularly to
interact and help one another achieve insight their feelings
and behavior.
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.
Couple therapy
A form of group therapy intended to help troubled partners
improve their problems of communication and interaction.
Eclecticism
Psychotherapeutic approach that recognizes the value of a
broad treatment package over a rigid commitment to one
particular form of therapy.
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.
Antipsychotic drugs
Drugs used to treat very severe psychological disorders,
particularly schizophrenia.
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.
Psychosurgery
Brain surgery performed to change a persons behavior and
emotional state; a biological therapy rarely used today.
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