Psych Ch. 14

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Psychotherapy

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An interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from a psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem.

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Eclectic Psychotherapy

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Treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem.

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Resistance

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A reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconscious material.

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Transference

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An event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client`s life and the client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies.

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Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)

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A form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping clients improve their current relationships.

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Behaviour Therapy

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A type of therapy that assumes a disordered behaviour is learned and that symptom relief is achieved though changing overt maladaptive behaviours into more constructive behaviours.

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Aversion Therapy

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A form of behaviour therapy that uses positive punishment to reduce the frequency of an undesirable behaviour.

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Token Economy

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A form of behaviour therapy in which clients are give `tokens` for desired behaviours, which they can later trade for rewards.

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Exposure Therapy

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An approach treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response.

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Systematic Desensitization

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A procedure in which a client relaxes all the muscles in his or her body while imagining being in increasingly frightening situations.

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Cognitive Therapy

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A form of psychotherapy that involves helping a client identify and correct and distorted thinking about self, others, or the world.

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Cognitive Restructuring

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A therapeutic approach that teaches clients to questions the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and positive beliefs.

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Mindfulness Meditiation

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A form of cognitive therapy that teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment; to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings, and sensations; and to detect symptoms before they become a problem.

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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

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A blend of cognitive and behavioural therapeutic strategies.

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Person-Centered Therapy

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An approach to therapy that assumes all individuals have a tendency toward growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist.

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Gestalt Therapy

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An existential approach to treatment with the goal of helping the client become more aware of his or her thoughts, behaviours, experiences, and feelings and to `own`or take responsibility for them.

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Group Therapy

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Therapy in which multiple participants (who often do not know one another at the onset) work on their individual problems in a group atmosphere.

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Anti-psychotic Drugs

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Medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms.

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Anti-anxiety Medication

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Drugs that help reduce a person`s experience of fear or anxiety.

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Anti-depressants

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A class of drugs that help lift people`s moods.

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

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A treatment that involves placing a powerful pulsed magnet over a person`s scalp, which alters neuronal activity in the brain.

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Phototherapy

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A treatment for seasonal depression that involves repeated exposure to bright light.

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Psychosurgery

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Surgical destruction of specific brain areas.

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Placebo

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An inert substance or procedure that has been applied with the expectation that a healing response will be produced.

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Chlorpromazine

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a.k.a Thorazine
1st generation anti-psychotic

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Haloperidol

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aka Haldol
1st generation anti-psychotic

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Clozapine

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aka Clozaril
2nd generation anti-psychotic

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Risperidone

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aka Resperdal
2nd generation anti-psychotic

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Alprazolam

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aka Xanax
anti-anxiety

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Diazepam

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aka Valium
anti-anxiety

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Nortriptyline

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aka Pamelor
TCA anti-depressant

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Fluoxetine

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aka Prozac
SSRI anti-depressant