Psychotherapy Matrix - Essay
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Appendix C
Psychotherapy Matrix
Directions: Review Modules 34 and 36 of Psychology and Your Life. After reviewing the major classifications of psychological disorders, select three approaches to summarize. Include examples of the types of psychological disorders appropriate for each therapy.
Psychodynamic Therapy Approach Behavioral Therapy Approach Cognitive Therapy Approach
Summary of Approach Psychodynamic Therapy seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively.
Psychoanalysis Freudian
Psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior.
• Resistance is an inability or unwillingness to discuss or reveal particular memories, thoughts, or motivations.
• Transference is the transfer to a psychoanalyst feeling of love or anger that had been originally directed to a patient’s parents or other authority figures.
Now psychoanalyst approaches tends to be shorter duration, usually lasting no longer than three months or 20 lessons. Where therapist puts less emphasis on a patients past history and childhood, concentrating instead on an individual’s current relationships and specific complaints.
(Feldman, 2010, p. 429-440). Behavioral Therapy builds on the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assumes that normal and abnormal behaviors are both learned.
Classical Conditioning treatments
• Aversive conditioning
Is a form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with
Undesired behavior.
• Systematic desensitization: A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety
Exposure A behavioral treatment for
Appendix C
Psychotherapy Matrix
Directions: Review Modules 34 and 36 of Psychology and Your Life. After reviewing the major classifications of psychological disorders, select three approaches to summarize. Include examples of the types of psychological disorders appropriate for each therapy.
Psychodynamic Therapy Approach Behavioral Therapy Approach Cognitive Therapy Approach
Summary of Approach Psychodynamic Therapy seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively.
Psychoanalysis Freudian
Psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior.
• Resistance is an inability or unwillingness to discuss or reveal particular memories, thoughts, or motivations.
• Transference is the transfer to a psychoanalyst feeling of love or anger that had been originally directed to a patient’s parents or other authority figures.
Now psychoanalyst approaches tends to be shorter duration, usually lasting no longer than three months or 20 lessons. Where therapist puts less emphasis on a patients past history and childhood, concentrating instead on an individual’s current relationships and specific complaints.
(Feldman, 2010, p. 429-440). Behavioral Therapy builds on the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assumes that normal and abnormal behaviors are both learned.
Classical Conditioning treatments
• Aversive conditioning
Is a form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with
Undesired behavior.
• Systematic desensitization: A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety
Exposure A behavioral treatment for
References: Feldman, R. S. (2010) Psychology and your life. New York: McGraw Hill.