Abnormal Psychology Ch. 16 Therapy

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Anti-anxiety Drugs

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Drugs that are used primarily for alleviating anxiety.

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Antidepressant Drugs

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Drugs that are used primarily to elevate mood and relieve depression. Often also used in the treatment of certain anxiety disorders, bulimia, and certain personality disorders.

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Antipsychotic Drugs

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Medications that alleviate or diminish the intensity of psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions. Neuroleptics.

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Behavior Therapy

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Use of therapeutic procedures based primarily on principles of classical and operant conditioning.

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Behavioral Activation

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Treatment for depression in which the patient and the therapist work together to help the patient find ways to become more active and engaged with life.

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Client-centered Therapy

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Nondirective approach to psychotherapy, developed chiefly by Carl Rogers, that focuses on the natural power of the organism to heal itself; a key goal is to help clients accept and be themselves.

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Cognitive/Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

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Therapy based on altering dysfunctional thoughts and cognitive distortions.

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Counter-Transference

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Pyschodynamic concept that the therapist brings personal issues, based on his or her own vulnerabilities and conflicts, to the therapeutic relationship.

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Couple Therapy

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Treatment for disordered interpersonal relationships involving sessions with both members of the relationship present and emphasizing mutual need gratification, social role expectations, communication patterns, and similiar interpersonal factors.

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Double-Blind Study

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Often used in studies examining drug treatment effects, a condition where neither the subject nor the experimenter has knowledge about what specific experimental condition (or drug) the subject is receiving.

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Efficacy

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In a situation where treatment is tested under ideal conditions (usually in a controlled clinical trial) efficacy is how well a given treatment improves clinical outcome compared to a control or comparison condition.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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Use of electricity to produce convulsions and uncounsciousness; a treatment used primarily to alleviate depressive and manic episodes. Also known as electroshock therapy.

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Empirically Supported Treatment

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Treatment that has been demonstrated to be superior to a standard comparison treatment or to placebo in a randomized controlled trial. Also known as evidence-based treatment.

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Evidence-based Treatment

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Treatment that has been demonstrated to be superior to a standard comparison treatment or to placebo in a randomized controlled trial. Also known as empirically supported treatment.

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Family Therapy

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A treatment approach that includes all family members, not just the identified patient.

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Flooding

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Anxiety-eliciting therapeutic technique involving having a client repeatedly experience the actual internal or external stimuli that had been indentified as producing anxiety reactions.

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Free Association

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Method for probing the unconscious by having patients talk freely about themselves, their feelings, and their motives.

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Gestalt Therapy

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Therapy designed to increase the integration of thoughts, feelings and actions and to promote self-awareness and self acceptance.

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Imaginal Exposure

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Form of exposure therapy that does not involve a real stimulus. Instead, the patient is asked to imagine the feared stimulus or situation.

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in vivo Exposure

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Exposure that takes place in a real-life situation as opposed to the therapeutic or laboratory setting.

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Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy

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Modification of traditional behavioral couple therapy that has a focus on acceptance of the partner rather than being solely change-oriented.

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Latent Content

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In psychoanalytic therory, repressed actual motives of a dream that are seeking expression but are so painful or unacceptable that they are disguised by the manifest content of the dream.

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Manifest Content

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In psychodynamic theory, the apparent (or obvious) meaning of a dream; masks the latent (or hidden) content.

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Manualized Therapy

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Standardization of psychosocial treatments (as in development of a manual) to fit the randomized clinical paradigm.

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Modeling

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Learning of skills by imitating another person who performs the behavior to be acquired.

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Neurosurgery

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Surgery on the nervous system, especially the brain.

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Placebo

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An inert pill or otherwise neutral intervention that produces desirable therapeutic effects because of the subject's expectations that it will be beneficial.

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Psychological treatment that focuses on individual personality dynamics, usually from a psychodynamic or psychodynamically derived perspective.

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Psychopharmcology

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Science of determing which drugs alleviate which disorders and why they do so.

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Psychotherapy

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Treatment of mental disorders by psycholocial methods.

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Randomized Clinical Trials (RCTs)

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Involves a specific treatment group (the group the researchers are most interested in) as well a a control treatment group (against which the treatment group will be compared). Participants have an equal chance of being placed in either group because placement is determined randomly.

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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

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Form of psychotherapy focusing on changing a client's maladaptive thought processes, on which maladaptive emotional responses and thus behavior are presumed to depend.

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Resistance

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Selye's second stage of responding to continuing trauma, involving finding some means to deal with the trauma and adjust to it. In psychodynamic treatment, the person's unwillingness or inability to talk about certain thoughts, motives, or experiences.

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Response Shaping

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Positive reinforcement technique used in therapy to establish, by gradual approximation, a response not intitially in a person's behavioral repertoire.

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Structural Family Therapy

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Treatment of an entire family by analysis of interaction among family members.

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Systematic Desensitization

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Behavior therapy technique for extinguishing maladaptive anxiety reponses by teaching a person to relax or behave, while in the presence of the anxiety-producing stimulus, in some other way that is inconsistent with anxiety.

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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Neurological disorder resulting from excessive use of antipsychotic drugs. Side effects can occur months to years after treatment has been initiated or has stopped. The symptoms involve involuntary movements of the tongue, lips, jaw, and extremities.

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Token Economy

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Reinforcement techniques often used in hospital or institutional settings in which patients are rewarded for socially constructive behaviors with tokens that can then be exchanged for desired objects or activities.

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Traditional Behavioral Couple Therapy

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Widely used for of therapy that uses behavioral approaches to bring about changes in the marital relationship.

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Transference

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In psychodynamic therapy, a process whereby clients project onto the therapist attitudes and feelings that they have had for a parent or others close to them.