PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Systematic Desensitization, Behaviour Therapy, Prescription Drug
Lecture note 23 PSY 309:
• Psychotherapy
• Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a
trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve
personal growth.
• Biomedical Therapy
• prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology.
• Eclectic Therapy
• An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses
techniques from various forms of therapy.
• Resistance
• In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding
to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.
• Insight Therapies
• A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the
client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
• Client-Centered Therapy
• A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs that an individual has an unlimited
capacity for psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed in
the way.
• Active Listening
• Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of
Rogers' client-centered therapy.
• Unconditional Positive Regard
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• a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help
clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
• Counterconditioning
• behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to get new response to
stimuli that are triggering unwanted behavior.
• Exposure Therapies
• behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear
and avoid.
• Systematic Desensitization
• A type of exposure therapies, and it associates a pleasant state with gradually increasing
anxiety triggering stimuli.
• Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
• another type of Exposure Therapy, that uses electronic simulations.
• Aversive Conditioning
• type of counter conditioning that pairs unwanted state with an unwanted behavior.
• Token Economy
• an operant conditioning procedure in which desired behavior earns a token that can be
exchanged for treats/privileges.
• Cognitive Therapy
• therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on
the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
• Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
• A type of therapy that challenges peoples illogical, self defeating attitude and
assumptions.
• (Albert Ellis)
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