PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Skills, Family Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Goal: help client gain an understanding of the unconscious, unresolved conflicts, repressed childhood experiences through therapist interpretation & client insight. Therapist is neutral, only talks to interpret. Free association: resistance insight & interpretation. Transference (treats therapist the way they treat others in their life) Goal: change the problem behavior; no thoughts, no reflection on past. Aversion therapy: pair behavior with a negative event to extinct it. Ex: smoking cessation programs (cigarettes laces with nausea-inducing drugs smoking leads to vomiting) Exposure: people are confronted gradually of suddenly to a feared stimulus but with no bad outcome (positive event, eventually the anxiety will be extinguished. Systematic desensitization: create anxiety hierarchy, teach relaxation techniques, pair relaxation with anxious stimuli. Anxiety hierarchy: see picture of a snake, see and touch a fake snake, see a real snake in its cage, see free snake up-close, hold snake in hands.