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APP Unit 13
APP Unit 13 Examples
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Psychotherapy (Example) | Psychological disorders that researchers believe and learned, such as phobias are most likely treated with psychotherapy. |
| Biomedical Therapy (Example) | Schizophrenia is most likely treated with biomedical therapies. |
| Eclectic Approach (Example) | A therapist that uses operant conditioning while encouraging a patient to modify his thought process. |
| Psychoanalysis (Example) | Mr. Choiâs therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelings of love and hate to his parents. |
| Free Association (Example) | You tell your therapist about a frightening car accident. Your therapist instructs you to close your eyes and verbalize any further thoughts stimulated by the experience, even if they are scary or embarrassing. |
| Resistance (Example) | During psychotherapy, you begin to stutter whenever you begin to discuss personally sensitive thoughts. |
| Psychodynamic Therapy (Example) | A psychodynamic therapist would suggest interpretive insights regarding patients difficulties. |
| Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Example) | Interpersonal therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them to resolve disagreements with their friend. |
| Humanistic Therapies (Example) | Instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, humanistic therapies seek to promote growth and self-fullfilment. |
| Active Listening (Example) | When Murli told his therapist âI came to see what you could do for meâ, the therapist responded âit sounds like you need some help. Am I right? |
| Client-Centred Therapy (Example) | During a marriage counselling session, the therapist suggests to Mr. and Mrs. Gallo that they each restate their spouseâs comments before making their own. |
| Behaviour Therapy (Example) | Cindy suggests that her nail biting might be a symptom of unconscious resentment toward her parents. Her therapist indicates that her problem isn't unconscious hostility; it's nail biting. |
| Classical Conditioning Therapies (Example) | In one treatment for bed-wetting, the child sleeps on a liquid-sensitive pad that when wet triggers an alarm and awakens the child. |
| Counterconditioning (Example) | Benny's mother tries to reduce his fear of sailing by giving him his favourite candy as soon as they board the boat. |
| Exposure Therapies (Example) | In 1924, Mary Jones reported that 3-year-old Peter lost his fear of rabbits when a rabbit was repeatedly presented while Peter was eating a tasty snack. Joseph Wolpe refined Jones' counterconditioning technique and developed systematic desensitization. |
| Systematic Desensitization (Example) | The construction of an anxiety hierarchy and training in relaxation are important. |
| Aversive Conditioning (Example) | To treat nail biting, one can paint one's fingernails with a bitter-tasting nail polish. |
| Behaviour Modification (Example) | Praising socially withdrawn children when they have eye contact with others and ignoring them after a temper tantrum. |
| Token Economy (Example) | A token economy is helpful for encouraging adults with intellectual disability to make their beds every morning. |
| Cognitive Therapies (Example) | Peter is depressed because he thinks his teacher’s study suggestions mean he’s going to fail her course. He would benefit from cognitive therapy. |
| Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (Example) | Natasha claimed that her failure to get A’s in all her courses meant she was incompetent. Her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of students are incompetent!” |
| Beck's Depression Therapy (Example) | Dylan is a second-year undergraduate who feels so incompetent that he believes his life is worthless and hopeless. He would benefit from Beck’s cognitive therapy. |
| Stress Inoculation Training (Example) | Jenna is afraid of speaking to a large audience. Her therapist suggests that prior to a speaking engagement she should reassure herself with comments like, “Cheer up, Jenna! You know what you are talking about!” |
| Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (Example) | In one study, people were taught to attribute their compulsive urges to abnormal brain functioning. Instead of giving into an urge, they participated in an alternative activity that engaged other parts of the brain. |
| Group Therapy (Example) | Many self-help groups have emulated the use of a 12-step program by Alcoholics Anonymous. |
| Family Therapy (Example) | To help Mrs. Otsuki lose weight, her therapist first attempted to assess whether her weight loss might be personally threatening to her husband. |
| Client Perspectives on Psychotherapy (Example) | In an experiment potentially delinquent boys were assigned to a 5 year treatment program that included counseling and family assistance. Later, McCord’s investigation of this program’s effectiveness revealed that clients’ accounts of the program’s effe |
| Regression Toward the Mean (Example) | Unusual ESP subjects who defy chance when first tested nearly always lose their “psychic powers” when retested. |
| Meta-Analysis (Example) | After performing a meta-analysis of some 475 psychotherapy outcome studies, Smith et. al reported in 1980 that evidence supports the efficacy of psychotherapy. |
| Evidenced-Based Practice (Example) | Because Gretchen is afraid of contracting infectious diseases, she compulsively avoids shaking people’s hands or touching doorknobs. Research suggests that an effective treatment would be behaviour therapy |
| Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (Example) | Kammy vividly imagines being abused by her partner while her therapist triggers eye movements by waving a finger in front of Kammy’s eyes. |
| Culture and Psychotherapy (Example) | In one experiment, Asian-American clients were more likely to perceive counselor empathy if their counselor shared the clients’ cultural values. |
| Preventative Mental Health (Example) | Bolstering parents’ and teachers’ skills at nurturing children’s achievement and resulting self-esteem best illustrates preventative mental health. |
| Double Blind Procedure (Example) | Dr. Volz is a researcher who wants to distinguish between the direct effects of a new antianxiety medication and effects arising from expectations of the drug’s effectiveness. |
| Chlorpromazine (Example) | Newer, atypical antipsychotics, such as Clorazil, target both dopamine and serotonin receptors. |
| Psychosurgery (Example) | MRI-guided precision surgery is occasionally done to cut the brain circuits involved in severe cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
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