AP Psychology Therapy Chapter

Freud’s therapy technique in which a patient’s free associations get interpreted by their therapists allowing repressed feelings out and allows patient to gain self-insight

allow patient to get repressed feelings out and gain self-insight

Dream analysis, interpretation, and free association

scientific validity, overemphasis on sexuality, generalization, and patriarchal norms

Carl Rogers

active-listening, genuine, accepting environment for client’s growth

aim to help client’s realize their own potential or their need to self-actualize

Behavior focuses on conscious drives and decisions while psychoanalytic and humanistic relies on the unconscious

Cognitive therapy emphasizes that negative thinking causes psychological problems while cognitive-behavioral emphasizes irrational thought causes maladaptive behavior which causes psychological problems

Therapists help patient acknowledge warped thinking and set more realistic ways of looking at things

-people often enter therapy in a crisis

-clients need to believe therapy was worth the effort

-generally speak kindly of therapists

used to treat schizophrenia and other severe thought disorders

thorazine, risperdal, and zyprexia

tardive dyskinesia (involuntary movement of facial muscles, tongue, and limbs), obesity, and diabetes

used to treat depression, anxiety, ocd, and ptsd

block the reuptake or absorption of serotonin from synapses

Norepinephrine and Serotonin

obesity, diabetes, and addiction

drugs used to control anxiety or agitation

xanax, ativan, d-cycloserine

addiction, increased anxiety, insomnia, and withdrawals

in psychoanalysis, the blocking of anxiety ridden material or memories from consciousness

in psychoanalysis, the client’s transfer of emotions linked with other relationships to the therapist

viewing individuals as responding to unconscious desires and childhood experiences

therapy that involved moving your eyes in a certain pattern to process trauma

Giving people a timed daily dose of light to lessen depression symptoms

treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear or avoid

associates a pleasant and relaxing state with gradually increasing anxiety-inducing stimuli

progressively exposes people to an electronic simulation of their fears

uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behavior

developed by Albert Ellis, confrontational cognitive therapy that vigorously challenges people’s self defeating views and mentality

pairing unwanted state (nausea) with unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol)

patient could have learned fear by watching someone else have that fear

earning a token for doing the right thing, intended to reinforce preferred behaviors

• Believes depression comes from negative self talk

• depression triad: Negative view of themselves, the world, and their future

Prozac/Zoloft/Paxil

mood stabilizing drug prescribed to majority bipolar disordered individuals

used mainly to treat ADHD

biomedical therapy used only for severely depressed patients, when short electric currents are sent through brain or anesthetized patient