Ohio State University Psych 1100 Chapter 16

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Psychotherapy

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A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems, and improve the quality of their lives.

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Paraprofessional

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Person with no professional training who provides mental health services.

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Insight Therapies

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Psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight.

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Free Association

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Technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort.

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Resistance

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Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions, and impulses.

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Transference

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Projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist.

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Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)

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Treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions.

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Humanistic Therapies

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Therapies that emphasize the development of human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive.

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Person-Centered Therapy

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Therapy centering on the client's goals and ways of solving problems.

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Gestalt Therapy

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Therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self.

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Group Therapy

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Therapy that treats more than one person at a time.

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Alcoholics Anonymouse

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Twelve-Step, self-help program that provides social support for achieving sobriety.

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Strategic Family Intervention

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Family therapy approach designed to remove barariers to effective communication.

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Structural Family Therapy

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Treatment in which therapists deeply involve themselves in family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions.

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Behavior Therapist

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Therapist who focuses on specific problem behaviors, and current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

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Systematic Desensitization

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Clients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear in a stepwise manner.

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Exposure Therapy

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Therapy that confronts clients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear.

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Dismantling

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Research procedure for examining the effectiveness of isolated components of a larger treatment.

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Response Prevention

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Technique in which therapists prevent clients from performing their typical avoidance behaviors.

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Participant Modeling

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Technique in which the therapist first models a problematic situation and then guides the client through steps to cope with it unassisted.

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Token Economy

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Method in which desirable behaviors are rewarded with tokens that clients can exchange for tangible rewards.

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Aversion Therapy

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Treatment that uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviors.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

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Treatments that attempt to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adaptive, rational cognitions.

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Meta-Analysis

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Statistical method that helps researchers to interpret large bodies of psychological literature.

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Empirically Supported Treatment (EST)

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Intervention for specific disorders supported by high-quality scientific evidence.

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Psychopharmaacotherapy

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Use of medications to treat psychological problems.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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Patients receive brief electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure to treat serious psychological problems.

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Psychosurgery

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Brain surgery to treat psychological problems.