Therapies Quiz

Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

• Psychotherapy

• Biomedical therapy

• Psychoanalysis

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology

• Biomedical therapy

• Psychotherapy

An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various other forms of therapy

• Eclectic approach

• Psychoanalysis

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences---and the therapist's interpretations of them---released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

• Psychoanalysis

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy

• Psychodynamic therapy

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

• Resistance

• Interpretation

• Free association

• Transference

In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

• Interpretation

• Resistance

• Transference

In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

• Transference

• Interpretation

• Resistance

• Dream analysis

Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight

• Psychodynamic therapy

• Client-centered therapy

• Insight therapies

Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

• Insight therapies

• Biomedical therapy

• Meta-analysis

• Client-centered therapy

A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathetic environment to facilitate clients' growth

• Client-centered therapy

• Psychodynamic therapy

• Biomedical therapy