UNIT 1 PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY

PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY

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PSYCHOTHERAPY

• An interaction between a trained therapist and someone suffering from psychological difficulties.

PSYCHOANALYSIS

• Free Dissociation (Free writing)
• Dream Hypnosis
• Friends used free association, hypnosis, and dream interpretation to gain insight into the client’s unconscious

TRANSFERENCE

• In a psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with out other relationships.

HUMANISTIC THERAPY

• “Focus on you”
• Focuses on people’s potential for self- fulfilment (Self actualization)
• Focuses on the present and future (Not the past)
• Focus on conscious thoughts (Not unconscious one)
• Take responsibility for your actions

CARL ROGERS CREATED- TECHNOLOGY

• Client (Person) Centered therapy
• Therapist should use genuineness acceptance and empathy to show unconditional positive regard towards their client.

ACTIVE LISTENING

• Empathetic listening where the listener echoes, recreated and Clarifies
• Linked to Carl Rogers centered therapy

BEHAVIOR THERAPY

• Applies learning principle to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

EXAMPLE

• Supernanny techniques.

SYSTEMATIC DECENTRALIZATION

• A type of counterconditioning that associated a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli
• Touching what scares you (Come face to face)

AVERSIVE CONDITIONING

• A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
• Poop and biting nails

OPERANT CONDITIONING

• Token Economy- an operant conditioning procedure that rewards a desired behavior
• Money and good grades.

COGNITIVE THERAPIES

• A therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumptions that thoughts intervene between events and out emotional reaction

GROUP THERAPY

• AAA Anonymous
• Suffering from the same issue.