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Psychotherapy
Treatment of mental disorders by psychological methods
Manualized therapy
Standarization of psychological treatment ( a manual) to fit the ramdomized clinical padagrim
Psychopharmacology
Science of determining which drugs alleviate which disorder and why they do so.
Half-life
Is the time it takes for the levels of active drug in the body to be reduced by 50%.
Tardive Dyskinesia
Neurological disorder resulting from the excessive use of antipsychotic drug.
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Use of electricity to produce colvulsions and unconsiousness; a treatment used primarily to alleviate depressive and manic episodes. also known as electroschock therapy.
Neurosurgery
Surgery of the nevous system, specially the brain.
Behavioral Therapy
Use of theraputic procedures based primarily on principles of classical and opperant conditioning.
Systematic Desensitation
Behavioral Therapy technique for extingushing maladtive anxiety response by teaching a person to relax while in the presence of the anxiety-producing stimulus.
Modeling
Patient learns a new skills by immitating another person, such as a parent or therapist, who peforms the behavior to be acquired.
Response Shaping
Possitive reinforcement is used to stablish, by gradual approximation, a response that is actually resisted or is not initially in an individual's behavior repertoite.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Therapy based on altering dysfunctional thoughts and cognitive dysfunction.
Rational-emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Form of psychotherapy focusing on changing a clients maladaptive thought processes, on which maladaptive emotional responses and thus behavior are resumed to depend.
Client Centered Therapy
Nondirective approach to psychotherapy, developed chiefly by carl rogers, that focuses on the natural power of the organism to heal itself.
Psychodinamic Therapy
Is a treatment approach that focuses on the individual's personality dynamics usually form a psychoanalitically derived perspective.
Free Association
Method for probing the unconcious by having patients talk freely about themselves, their feelings and their motives.
Recistance
An unwillingness or inability to talk about certain motives or expiriences
Transference
Process whereby clients project onto the therapist attitudes and feelings that they had for a parent or others close to them.
Counter-Transference
psychodinamic concept that the therapist brings personal issues based on his or her own vulnerabilities and conflicts to the theraputic relationship.
Traditional Behavioral Coupple therapy
Widely used form of therapy that uses behavioral approaches to bring about changes in the marital relationship.
Integrative Behavioral Cupples Therapy
Modification of traditional behavioral couples therapy that focuses on acceptanceof the partner rather than being solely change oriented
Family therapy
A treatment approach that includes all family members, not just the identefied patient.
Structured Family Therapy
Treatment of an entire family by analysis of interaction among family members.