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psychotherapy |
an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties |
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psychoanalysis |
believed the patient's free associations, resistance, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight |
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resistance |
the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
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interpretation |
the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight |
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transference |
the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships |
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psychodynamic theory |
a view that explains personality in terms of conscious and unconscious forces |
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insight theory |
assumes that a person's behavior, thoughts, & emotions became disordered as a result of the individual's lack of understanding as to what motivates him/her. |
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client-centered therapy |
the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic, environment to faciliate client's growth |
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active listening |
the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. |
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unconditional positive regard |
an attitude of total acceptance toward another person |
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behavior therapy |
applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
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exposure therapies |
treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid |
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counterconditioning |
conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors |
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systematic desensitzation |
associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimulus |
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virtual reality exposure therapy |
progressively exposes people to stimulation of their greatest fears |
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aversive conditioning |
associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) |
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token economy |
people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior |
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cognitive therapy |
therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting |
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cognitive-behavior therapy |
a people integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior |
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regression toward the mean |
the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward the average |
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meta-analysis |
a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies |
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evidence-based practice |
the conscientious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient |
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biomedical therapy |
prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system |
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psychopharmacotherapy |
use of medications in the treatment of psychiatric disorders |
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antipsychotic drugs |
class of medicenes used to treat psychosis and other mental & emotional conditions |
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tardive dyskinesia |
involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs |
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anti-anxiety drugs |
medicenes that calm and relax people with excessive anxiety |
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antidepressant drugs |
medicenes that relieve symptoms of depressive disorders |
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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anethesized patients |
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repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) |
the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain |
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psychosurgery |
removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
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lobotomy |
a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients |
