Ch 17: Therapy Of Disorders

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psychotherapy

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an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers psychological difficulties

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Dorthea Dix

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reformer advocating the more humane treatment of individuals with psychological disorders

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biomedical therapy

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prescibed medications or med procedures that act directly on the patient's mnervous system

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eclectic approach

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approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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resistance

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in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material

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psychoanalysis

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sigmund freud's therapeutic techniq; believed that free assoc, reistances, dreams, transferences, and the therapists interpretations released previousy repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain insight

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interpretation

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in psychoanaylysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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transference

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in psychoanalysis, the pateitns transfer of the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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client-centered therapy

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humanistic therapy developed by carl rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine accepting empathic enviorn to faliciate the clients growth

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carl rogers

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leading humanist psychologist

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active listening

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emphatic 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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behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; include expose therapy, aversive conditioning

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exposure therapies

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behavior techniques such as systematic destensitaization that treat anxieties by exposing people in imagination or in reality to the things they fear/avoid

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mary cover jones

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behavior psychologist related to systematic desensitization; little albert experiment.

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systematic desensitization

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type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli; commonly used to treat phobias

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flooding

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bheavior therapy that uses direct exposure to the maximum intensity and maximum anxiety exposed to individual

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virtual reality exposure therapy

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an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes ppl to stimulations of their greatest fears

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aversive conditioning

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type of counter conditioning tha tssoc an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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behavior modification

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behavioral therapy where the basic concepts of operant conditioning are applied to eliminate maladaptive, unwanted behaviors

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token economy

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an operant conditoning procedure in whcih ppl earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior, and can later xchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

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cognitive therapy

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therapy that teaches ppl new, adaptive ways of thinking and acting, basd on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

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aaron beck

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american psychiatrist; developing cognitive therapy as a psychotherapy

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rational emotive therapy

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psychotherapy approach: proposes that an individuals unrealistic/irrational thoughts/beliefs cause emotional problems

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albert ellis

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psychologist developing the rational emotive psychotherapy approach

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cognitive behavior therapy

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popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior hterapy

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family therapy

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therapy that treats the fam as a system. views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other fam members; attempts to guide fam members toward positive relationships and improved communication

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regression toward the mean

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scores tend to deviate towards the average

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meta-analysis

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a procedure for statistically combining the results of many diff research studies

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eye movement desensitization (and reprocessing)

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psychophysiologic treatment that proposes to remove painful memories by providing a moving object for the eye to track while the therapist and patient use deconditioning therapy; EMDR

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light exposure therapy

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to treat seasonal affective disorder

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psychopharmacology

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study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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antipsychotic drugs

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class of medications used to treat psychological disorders and other mental/emotional disorders

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antianxiety drugs

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medication that reduces anxiety- central nervous system acitivty is depressed

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SSRI's

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selective seretonin reputake inhibitor

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mood stabilizing drugs/lithium

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stabilize the emotional highs/lows of individuals

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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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biomed therapy for severely depressed patients in whcih a rief electirc current is snse thru the brain of the anesthetized patient

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rTMS

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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 effort to change behavior

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lobotomy

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a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional/violanet patients. the procedure the cut nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotional controlling centers of the inner brain