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An approachto psychotherapy that uses techniques from various formsof therapy
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Eclectic approach
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Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
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Psychotherapy
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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. releasing previously reperessed feelings to allow patient to gain self-insight
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Psychoanalysis
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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
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Resistance
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In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
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Interpretation
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In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
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Transference
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Views individuals as responding to unconnscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seek to enhance self insight
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Psychodynamic therapy
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A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses
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Insight therapies
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A humanistic therapy, where therapists use techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth
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Client-centered theory
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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
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Active listening
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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude
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Unconditional positive regard
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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
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Behavior therapy
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A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
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Counterconditioning
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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
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Exposure therapies
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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
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Systematic desensitization
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