Question: What are the characteristics of insight therapy? What major forms of therapy fall into this category?

Answer: Insight Therapies are a variety of therapies aimed to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defense. Humanistic and psycho-dynamic therapies are often referred to as Insight Therapies.

Question: What is the major goal of psychoanalysis? What are these techniques and how are they used in it?

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Question: What is the goal of psycho-dynamic therapy? How is it related to psychoanalysis? What is interpersonal psychotherapy?

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Question: What are the goals of Humanistic Therapy? How are they similar/different from Psychoanalysis goals?

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Question: What is Roger’s client-centered therapy? What qualities should a Humanistic therapist have and why? What is Active-Listening?

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Question: What is the goal of behavior therapy? How does this differ from goals of insight therapy?

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Question: How is classical conditioning used in behavior therapy? Particularly what techniques are used and why?

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Question: How are operant conditioning techniques used in behavior modification? What is a token economy, and its therapy use?

Answer: Operant conditioning is voluntary behaviors are strongly influenced by consequences, knowing this behavior modification can reinforce good/bad. A token economy is a operant conditioning procedure where people earn a token for good behavior, and can later exchange for various privileges.

Question: What approach is taken in Cognitive Therapies? How does Beck’s work? What is stress-innoculation?

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Question: How does cognitive behavior therapy combine the behavioral/cognitive approaches?

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