Flashcards: Psychotherapy

Worry refers to the thoughts, images and emotions of a negative nature in a repetitive - uncontrollable manner that results from a proactive cognitive risk analysis made to avoid or solve anticipated potential threats and their potential consequences.

Positive Psychotherapy (PPT) is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Nossrat Peseschkian and co-workers in Germany since 1968.

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a brief, attachment-focused psychotherapy that centers on resolving interpersonal problems and symptomatic recovery.

A protagonist (from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (protagonistes), meaning "player of the first part, chief actor") is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama.

Behavior therapy is a broad term referring to psychotherapy, behavior analytical, or a combination of the two therapies.

Self psychology, a modern psychoanalytic theory and its clinical applications, was conceived by Heinz Kohut in Chicago in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and is still developing as a contemporary form of psychoanalytic treatment.

Person-centered therapy (PCT) is also known as person-centered psychotherapy, person-centered counseling, client-centered therapy and Rogerian psychotherapy.

Art therapy (also known as arts therapy) is a creative method of expression used as a therapeutic technique.

Biofeedback is the process of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions primarily using instruments that provide information on the activity of those same systems, with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will.

Narrative therapy is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help people identify their values and the skills and knowledge they have to live these values, so they can effectively confront whatever problems they face.

Morita therapy is an ecological and purpose-centered, response oriented therapy created through case-based research by Shoma Morita, M.

Rejection Therapy is a social self-help game created by Jason Comely where being rejected by another person or group is the sole winning condition.

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy – And the World's Getting Worse is a 1992 book by American psychologist James Hillman and American writer and commentator Michael Ventura.

Focusing is a psychotherapeutic process developed by psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin.

Mullingstorp is an institute for psychotherapy situated in Sweden and started by Bengt Stern in 1985.

Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing is a 1988 book by author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, in which Masson argues against the practice of psychotherapy.

The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) was founded in 1969 as the Biofeedback Research Society (BRS).

Passages Malibu Addiction Treatment Center, known as Passages Malibu, is a for-profit addiction treatment facility located in Malibu, California and founded by Pax and Chris Prentiss in 2001.

Attachment therapy is a controversial category of alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders.

Emotionally focused therapy (EFT), also known as emotion-focused therapy and process-experiential therapy, is a usually short-term (8–20 sessions) structured psychotherapy approach to working with individuals, couples, or families.

Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) encompasses a range of treatments that includes activities with horses and other equines to promote physical, occupational, and emotional growth in persons with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, autism, cerebral palsy, dementia, depression, developmental delay, genetic syndromes (such as Down's syndrome), traumatic brain injuries, behavioral issues, abuse issues, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), drug and alcohol addiction, and other mental health problems.

The Synanon organization, initially a drug rehabilitation program, was founded by Charles E.

Daniel Harold Casriel (March 1, 1924 – June 7, 1983) was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer from New York City.

Feminist therapy is a set of related therapies arising from what proponents see as a disparity between the origin of most psychological theories and the majority of people seeking counseling being female.

The Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) is a learned society founded in 1970.

BetterHelp is an online portal that provides direct-to-consumer access to behavioral health services.

The Primal Scream.

Process-oriented psychology, also called process work, is a depth psychology theory and set of techniques developed by Arnold Mindell and associated with transpersonal psychology, somatic psychology and post-Jungian psychology.

Phoenix House is a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization operating in ten states with 150 programs.

Help is a BBC television comedy series first screened on BBC Two in 2005.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT, typically pronounced as the word "act") is a form of psychotherapy commonly described as a form of cognitive-behavior therapy or of clinical behavior analysis (CBA).

Coherence therapy is a system of psychotherapy based in the theory that symptoms of mood, thought and behavior are produced coherently according to the person's current mental models of reality, most of which are implicit and unconscious.

Anti-psychology describes the suspicion and resistance that some people feel towards psychological treatment.

Carolyn Cowan (born 1960) is a London-based psychosexual and relationship therapist.

Daytop, or Daytop Village, is a drug addiction treatment organization with facilities in New York City and New Jersey.

Ivan Tyrrell /ˈtɪrəl/ (born 18 October 1943) is a British educator, writer, and artist.