Ap Psych Chapter 13

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Psychotherapy

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Overcoming problems by confiding and talking with trained professionals.

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Biomedical Therapy

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Prescribed medication or medical procedure to help cure the disorder.

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Eclectic Approach

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The use of different approaches from various forms of therapy.

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Psychoanalysis Therapy Approach

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Patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist's interpretations of them- released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.

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Resistance

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Blocking information from consciousness to avoid anxiety.

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Interpretation

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Therapist notes items with dream meanings, resistance, and other emotions.

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Transference

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Taking feelings they feel toward an important figure in their life and transferring it to the therapist.

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Briefer and less expensive than psychoanalysis.

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Interpersonal Psychotherapy

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Aims to gain insight into the root of difficulties.

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Humanistic Therapy

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Focuses on the value, dignity, and worth of each person.

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Client-centered Therapy

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Reflects the belief that the client and therapist are partners in therapy.

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Active Listening

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A listener acknowledges, restates, and clarifies the speaker's thoughts and concerns.

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.

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Behavior Therapies

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Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

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Counteringconditioning

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The use of classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.

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Exposure Therapies

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Exposing people to the things they fear and avoid.

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Systematic Desensitization

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Associating a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli.

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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

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Progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears.

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Aversive Conditioning

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Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior.

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Token Economy

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People earn a token for exhibiting desired behavior.

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Cognitive Therapies

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Teaches people new, adaptive ways of thinking and acting.

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Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

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Developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes.

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Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy

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Changes the way people think, look at it from another end.

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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

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Based on a combination of substituting healthy thoughts for negative thoughts.

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Family Therapy

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Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members.

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Group Therapy

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Helps save therapist time and clients money used with problems that involve helping social skills.

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Self-Help Groups

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Usually used for people who have the same struggle or experienced same situations (AA, loss/grief groups, etc.).

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Client's Persectives

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Most report feeling better. (Could be confirmation bias, entering in crisis, placebo.)

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Regression Towards the Mean

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The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average.

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Measuring Growth/Meta-Analysis

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Analysis gives us a bottom-line results for a lot of studies.

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Evidence-based Practice

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Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.

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Therapeutic Alliance

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A mutual bond of respect and trust between therapist and client.

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.

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Antipsychotic

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Reduces agitation, delusions, and hallucinations by blocking the activity of dopamine. (Thorazine)

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Antianxiety

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Relieves anxiety and panic disorders by depressing the activity of the CNS.

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Antidepressants

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Medication to treat major depression by increasing the amount of serotonin.

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Mood-Stabilizing Medications

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Lithium- a chemical used to counteract mood swings of bipolar disorder.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy

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An electrical shock is sent through the brain to try to reduce symptoms of mental disturbances.

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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

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Used to stimulate or supress brain activity.

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Psychosurgery

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A medical operation that alters part of the brain to make the patient calmer and free of symptoms.

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Lobotomy

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Destroying parts of the frontal cortex.

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Selective-Serotonin-Reuptake-Inhibitors (SSRI)

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Elevate arousal and mood. (Zolof, Paxil, and Prozac).