Studylist for Chapter 15
different approaches to therapy
Types of mental health professionals
Talk therapies or "Insight" therapies
Freudian
psychoanalysis
free association
dream analysis
analysis of resistances
analysis of transference
interpretation of
unconscious conflicts
evaluation of psychoanalysis
modern psychdynamic
therapies
Rogers’ humanistic
client-centered therapy
empathy
active listening
unconditional positive
regard
genuineness
nondirective
Beck's Cognitive therapy
cognitive restructuring
recognizing and changing:
destructive negative self-talk
illogical
thinking
selective
thinking
overgeneralization
magnification and minimization
personalization
Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
recognizing and changing
irrational beliefs
Behavior therapies
Based on classical conditioning:
systematic
desensitization
exposure therapy
aversion therapy
Based on operant conditioning:
behavior modification
observational learning/modeling
combining cognitive & behavioral therapies
Biomedical therapies
psychopharmacology or psychotherapeutic drugs
antianxiety
benzodiazepines like diazepam (Valium) or alprazolam (Xanax)
antipsychotics or neuroleptics - old ones like
Thorazine or Haldol or newer ones like Clozaril or Risperdal
mood-stabilizers like lithium
antidepressants like fluoxetine
(Prozac) or sertraline (Zoloft)
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
psychosurgery (historically, frontal
lobotomy or modern surgeries like deep brain stimulation)