Unit 13 Module 70-3

he psychodynamic and humanistic therapies are referred to as ___________

• Behavior Therapies

• Insight Therapies

• Client-centered Therapies

• Cognitive Therapies

A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

• Client-centered therapy

• Insight therapy

• Psychotherapy

• Psychoanalytic therapy

What is client centered therapy?

• therapy that aims to boost people’s self-fulfillment by helping them grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance.

• therapy in which echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what the person expresses, and acknowledging the expressed feelings.

• therapy which focuses on the person’s conscious self-perceptions.

• therapy in which the therapist listens closely to the client and the whole therapeutic lesson revolves around their problems and solutions for those problems.

What is unconditional positive regard?

• providing warmth, affection, acceptance, and the like when certain conditions, standards, and/or expectations are met.

• a type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

• the basic acceptance and support of a person regardless of what the person says or does, especially in the context of client-centered therapy