Generic Psychotherapy

Subject Areas

Technical Psychotherapeutic Terms

Most of the items from the following list come from the Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change (Garfield & Bergin 1978). Currently this list focuses on aspects of treatment. It does not include items about symptoms and diagnostic entities.

• Abreaction
• Acceptance
• Accuracy of: understanding, empathy, reflection, interpretation
• Advice giving
• Assertiveness training
• Assessment
• Attention, as reinforcement, selective attention
• Attitude change
• Attribution
• Audio-video feedback
• Aversion therapy
• Behavior modification, therapy
• Beliefs
• Beneficial therapeutic bond
• Biofeedback
• Brief psychotherapy
• Catharsis
• Causal attribution
• Child psychotherapies
• Classical conditioning
• Client centered therapy
• Countertransference
• Diagnosis
• Didactic-experiential training
• Didactic instruction
• Differential reinforcement
• Direct analysis
• Directiveness
• Directive Therapy
• Divorce counseling
• Drugs
• Drug therapy
• Duration of therapy
• Education of client/patient
• Electric aversion
• Emergency psychotherapy
• Emotional: availability, expression, ventilation
• Empathy
• Encounter groups
• Erotic transference
• Ethical issues
• Ethnicity
• Expectancy effects
• Expectations
• Extinction
• Facilitation of communication
• Family therapy
• Feedback
• Fee payment
• Feminist Therapy
• Flexibility, therapeutic
• Flooding
• Focal psychotherapy
• Follow-up
• Frequency of session
• Goal: setting, attainment
• Grief work
• Group psychotherapy
• Growth facilitating conditions
• Guidance, direct
• Hostile-competitive behavior, therapist
• Hostile-controlling behavior, client/patient
• Humanistic therapy
• Hypnosis
• Iatrogenic factors
• Imagery
• Imitation, training in
• Implosive therapy
• Inappropriate intervention
• Incidental learning
• Individual therapy
• Insight-oriented approaches
• Insight techniques
• Interaction, client/patient, therapist
• Interpersonal process
• Interpersonal skills
• Interpretation
• Internal-external view of problem
• Jungian analysis
• Labeling
• Learning, applied to psychotherapy
  • Classical conditioning
  • Operant conditioning
  • in psychotherapy
• Locus of control
• Logotherapy
• Maintenance therapy
• Marathon group therapy
• Marital therapy
• Meditation
• Mind/body
• Modeling
• Motivation
• Multiple therapy
• Mutual affirmation
• Narcoanalysis
• Negative effects of therapy
• Negative expectations
• Negative placebo effect
• Negative reinforcement
• Neuropsychology
• Non-directive therapy
• Non-possessive warmth
• Object relations therapy
• Operant therapy
• Outcome of psychotherapy
• Paradoxical intention
• Patterning, psychobioligical
• Persistence
• Personality
• Persuasion
• Placebo effect
• Play therapy
• Positive regard
• Positive reinforcement
• Positive transference
• Power
• Practice, guided
• Premature termination
• Preparatory techniques
• Problem solving
• Process, psychotherapeutic
• Prognostic indicators
• Progressive relaxation
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy
• Punishment
• Race
• Rational-emotive therapy
• Reciprocal determinism
• Reciprocal inhibition
• Reflection
• Reframing
• Regression
• Reinforcement
• Relationship
• Relaxation
• Remission, spontaneous
• Repression
• Response maintenance, techniques
• Response prevention
• Responsibility
• Role-playing
• Screening
• Selective attention
• Self
• Self -concept
• Self-congruence
• Self-control
• Self-disclosure
• Self-efficacy
• Self-evaluation
• Self-exploration of client/patient, therapist
• Self-guidance
• Self-help
• Self-monitoring
• Self-praise
• Self-punishment
• Self-regulation
• Self-reinforcement
• Self-stimulation
• Self-verbalization
• Sensitization
• Session duration
• Sex
• Short-term insight therapy
• Short-term psychotherapy
• Social class
• Social power theory
• Social skills training
• Social system
• Stimulus control
• Stress inoculation
• Structural family therapy
• Structured learning therapy
• Suggestion
• Summarization of feeling
• Supportive-interpretive therapy
• Symbolic interaction
• Systemic desensitization
• Target complaints
• Target symptoms
• Telephone approaches to therapy
• Therapeutic alliance
• Therapeutic change
• Therapeutic conditions
• Therapeutic contract
• Therapeutic relationship
• Therapist
  • attitude
  • attractiveness
  • behavior
  • credentials
  • credibility
  • demographic variables
  • empathy
  • errors
  • expectations
  • experience
  • genuineness
  • good
  • helpfulness
  • inner involvement
  • interpersonal skills
  • knowledge of client/patient population
  • liability
  • manner of relating
  • mental health
  • nonprofessional or lay
  • perceptions, if client/patient, of therapeutic relationship
  • personal attributes
  • personal investment
  • personality
  • preparation
  • race
  • relationship skills
  • role
  • self-disclosure
  • self-perception
  • sex
  • skill
  • social class
  • training
  • treatment expectations
  • trustworthiness
  • values
  • warmth
• Thinking
• Thought stopping
• Time contracts
• Time limitations
• Time-limited psychotherapy
• Training
• Transference
• Treatment contract
• Uncertainty analysis
• Unconditional positive regard
• Value judgments
• Ventilation
• Verbal conditioning
• Vicarious desensitization
• Vicarious extinction
• Voice quality
• Warmth

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