Module 53 And Module 54

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psychotherapy

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treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieving personal growth

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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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psychodynamic therapy

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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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insight therapies

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a variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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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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unconditional positive regard

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a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl rogers believed to be conducive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance

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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 uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

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exposure therapies

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behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treats 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 exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering 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 airplane flying, spiders or public speaking

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aversive conditioning

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a type of counterconditioning 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 of 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 integrative 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 an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at other family members

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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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evidence-based practice

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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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regression toward the mean

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the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward the average