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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