Ap Psychology Myers 9E Chapter 15

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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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Eclectic Approach

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Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions b/w a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.

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Psychotherapy

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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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Resistance

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In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviours and events in order to promote insight

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Interpretation

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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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Transference

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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defences.

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Insight Therapies

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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 client's growth (a.k.a. person-centred therapy)

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Client-Centred Therapy

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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centred therapy

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Active Listening

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A caring, accepting, non-judgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed to be conductive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance.

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviours

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Behaviour Therapy

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A behaviour therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviours; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

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Counterconditioning

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Behavioural 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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Exposure Therapies

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

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Systematic Desensitisation

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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as aeroplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.

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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

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A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behaviour (such as drinking alcohol)

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Aversive Conditioning

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An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behaviour and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

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Token Economy

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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene b/w events and our emotional reactions

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Cognitive Therapy

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A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behaviour therapy (changing behaviour)

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Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy

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Therapy that treats the family as a system; views and individual's unwanted behaviours as influenced by, or directed at, other family members

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Family Therapy

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The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average

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Regression Toward the Mean

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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Meta-Analysis

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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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Evidence-Based Practice

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Prescribed medications or medical procedure that act directly on the patient's nervous system

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Biomedical Therapy

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behaviour

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Psychopharmacology

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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

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Antipsychotic Drugs

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Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of anti-psychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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Anti-anxiety Drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

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Antidepressant Drugs

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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anaesthetized patient

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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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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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behaviour

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Psychosurgery

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A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centres of the inner brain

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Lobotomy

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Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud believed the patient'a 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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Psychoanalysis