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Psychotherapy?
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Ab emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers psychological difficulties.
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Biomedical Therapy?
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Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system.
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Eclectic Approach?
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An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
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Psychoanalysis?
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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the 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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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
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Interpretation?
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In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.
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Transference?
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In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
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Client-Centered Therapy?
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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.)
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Active Listening?
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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.
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Behavior Therapy?
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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
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Counterconditioning?
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A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning.
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Exposure Therapies?
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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.
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Systematic Desensitization?
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A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggerings stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.
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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy?
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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplanes flying, spiders, or public speaking.
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Aversive Conditioning?
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A type of counter-conditionng that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol.)
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Token Economy?
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An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.
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Cognitive Therapy?
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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy?
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A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
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Family Therapy?
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Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communications.
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Meta-Analysis?
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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
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Psychopharmacology?
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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.
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Tardive Dyskinesia?
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Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnet Stimulation (rTMS)?
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The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
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Psychosurgery?
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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
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Lobotomy?
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A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
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Regression Toward the Mean?
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The tendency for unusual events (or emotions) to "regress" (return) toward their average state.
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