Abnormal Psychology

Foundations of Treatment 119 Methods of Psychodynamic Therapy Freud and his followers developed a variety of techniques to allow ...

120 CHAPTER 4 called dreams the “royal road to the unconscious” (1900/1958) and pro- posed that dreams have both: •amanifest con ...

Foundations of Treatment 121 In sum, psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy rely on six methods to help a patient understand h ...

122 CHAPTER 4 Unconditional Positive Regard The therapist also conveys unconditional positive regard for the client, expressing ...

Foundations of Treatment 123 Habituation The process by which the emotional response to a stimulus that elicits fear or anxiety ...

124 CHAPTER 4 Systematic desensitization The behavioral technique of learning to relax in the presence of a feared stimulus. the ...

Foundations of Treatment 125 To treat compulsive behaviors, behavior therapists may use a variant of exposure calledexposure wit ...

126 CHAPTER 4 The procedure of reinforcing a small component of behavior at a time, and then progressively adding components of ...

Foundations of Treatment 127 Leon, for example, has irrational, dysfunctional thoughts about being evaluated, and he expects to ...

128 CHAPTER 4 Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) The form of treatment in which a patient’s irrational thoughts are transf ...

Foundations of Treatment 129 requires mediation through the patient’s belief.) The therapist helps the patient (D) dispute any i ...

130 CHAPTER 4 their emotional state, the outcome. For example, a rational response to Yoshi’s automatic thought about being self ...

Foundations of Treatment 131 In the decades since behavior therapy and cognitive therapy emerged, clinicians and researchers hav ...

132 CHAPTER 4 developed to treat people, generally women, who regularly hurt themselves physi- cally (such as by cutting or burn ...

Foundations of Treatment 133 Computer software can provide virtual reality exposure treatment, which can be particularly helpf ...

134 CHAPTER 4 when a member of the family was too far away to attend sessions and with people who have severe medical problems t ...

Foundations of Treatment 135 Treatments That Target Social Factors Treatments that target social factors aim to reduce symptoms ...

136 CHAPTER 4 P S N Table 4.5 • Four Themes of Relationship Problems in Interpersonal Therapyy Theme Example Goal Unresolved Gri ...

Foundations of Treatment 137 Family and Systems Therapy Some therapies target family functioning in order to change maladaptive ...

138 CHAPTER 4 In certain cases, a systems therapist might employ paradoxical intention—by suggesting that the problem behavior b ...