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Ch 05 - Therapeutic Approaches12th Psychology
Psychotherapy
What is the psychological definition of psychotherapy?
What is the psychological definition of psychotherapy?
DEFINITION
- Definition: A voluntary, professional relationship between a client seeking treatment and a trained therapist aiming to solve psychological problems and decrease personal distress.
- Everyday Example: A student facing severe anxiety seeking a trained clinical psychologist to discuss and resolve their maladaptive thought patterns in a trusting environment.
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Core Characteristics of Psychotherapy
What are the core characteristics that define a psychotherapeutic approach?
What are the core characteristics that define a psychotherapeutic approach?
FACT
- Systematic Application: It involves the systematic application of principles underlying different theories of therapy.
- Expert Supervision: Only persons who have received practical training under expert supervision can formally practice it.
- Therapeutic Alliance: The interaction naturally results in the formation of a confidential, interpersonal, and dynamic therapeutic relationship.
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Ethical Standards in Psychotherapy
What are the fundamental ethical standards that a professional psychotherapist must practice?
What are the fundamental ethical standards that a professional psychotherapist must practice?
CONCEPT
- Informed Consent & Confidentiality: Therapy must involve strictly informed consent and maintain absolute confidentiality regarding the client's disclosures.
- Prioritize Welfare: The practitioner must explicitly prioritize alleviating personal distress and respect human dignity at all times.
- Professional Integrity: The therapist must maintain absolute integrity and operate strictly within their boundaries of professional competence.
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- 4Advantages of Clinical Formulation
- 5Healing Factors: Catharsis
- 6Healing Factors: Non-specific Variables
- 7Therapeutic Alliance
- 8Components of Therapeutic Alliance
- 9Unconditional Positive Regard
- 10Empathy vs. Sympathy
- 11Duke and Nowicki: Building Therapeutic Climate
- 12Aetiology: Psychodynamic vs. Behavioural vs. Existential
- 13Chief Benefit: Psychodynamic vs. Behavioural vs. Existential
- 14Free Association
- 15Dream Analysis in Psychoanalysis
- 16Concept of Transference
- 17Transference Neurosis
- 18Positive vs. Negative Transference
- 19Resistance in Psychoanalysis
- 20Conscious vs. Unconscious Resistance
- 21Analytical Techniques: Confrontation vs. Clarification
- 22Working Through
- 23Insight in Psychoanalysis
- 24Intellectual vs. Emotional Insight
- 25Premise of Behaviour Therapy
- 26Behavioural Analysis: The Three Factors
- 27Antecedent vs. Consequent Operations
- 28Establishing Operations
- 29Negative Reinforcement vs. Aversive Conditioning
- 30Differential Reinforcement
- 31Behaviour Modification: Token Economy
- 32Systematic Desensitisation
- 33Principle of Reciprocal Inhibition
- 34Progressive Muscular Relaxation
- 35Systematic Desensitisation vs. Flooding
- 36Modelling (Vicarious Learning)
- 37Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)
- 38RET: ABC Analysis Framework
- 39Aaron Beck's Core Schemas
- 40Dysfunctional Cognitive Structures
- 41Critical Incidents and Schemas
- 42Therapeutic Technique: Gentle Questioning
- 43Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
- 44Humanistic-Existential Assumption
- 45Logotherapy
- 46Spiritual Unconscious
- 47Existential Anxiety
- 48Client-Centered Therapy
- 49Therapeutic Technique: Reflection
- 50Gestalt Therapy
- 51Biomedical Therapy: Drug Classifications
- 52Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT)
- 53Alternative Therapies: Ashtanga Yoga
- 54Sudarshana Kriya Yoga (SKY)
- 55Kundalini Yoga vs. Vipasana Meditation
- 56Zen Psychotherapy
- 57Rehabilitation: Occupational vs. Vocational Therapy
- 58Rehabilitation: Social Skills vs. Cognitive Retraining
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