PSYCH 111 Midterm: Module 52, 53 & 54
Document Summary
Eclectic approach combining several different therapies into one treatment. Psychoanalysis freud"s technique of incorporating a patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams and transferences and interpreting them to released repressed feelings and gain self-insight. Interpretation promoting insight by finding the meaning behind dreams, behaviors and resistances (blocks in the flow of free association) Transference directing feelings from past relationships toward the analyst. Humanistic therapy- aims to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance. Active listening echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what a patient expresses and acknowledging their expressed feelings. Unconditional positive regard an attitude of total acceptance toward another person. Behavior therapy applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors; works best with anxiety disorders. Counterconditioning conditioning new responses with stimuli that previously triggered an unwanted response. Exposure therapies treating anxieties by repeatedly subjecting people to that which they normally fear or avoid. Aversive conditioning associating an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior.
