Psych Ch 15

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Antianxiety drugs

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Medications that relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness.

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Antidepressant drugs

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Medications that gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of a depression.

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Medications used to gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions.

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Aversion therapy

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A behaviour therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable response.

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Behaviour therapies

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Application of the principles of learning to direct efforts to change clients’ maladaptive behaviours.

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Biomedical therapies

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Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders.

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Client-centred therapy

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An insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy.

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Cognitive therapy

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An insight therapy that emphasizes recognizing and changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs.

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Cognitive-behavioural treatments

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Forms of therapy that emphasize in treatment the role of thinking in psychological disorders. In these treatments, therapists use varied combinations of verbal interventions and behaviour modification techniques to help clients change maladaptive patterns of thinking.

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Couples therapy

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Therapy that involves the treatment of both partners in a committed, intimate relationship, in which the main focus is on relationship issues.

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Deep brain stimulation (DBS)

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A surgical treatment approach in which a thin electrode is implanted in the brain and connected to an implanted pulse generator so that various electrical currents can be delivered to brain tissue adjacent to the electrode.

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Deinstitutionalization

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Transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community-based facilities that emphasize outpatient care.

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Dream analysis

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A psychoanalytic technique in which the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client’s dreams.

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Eclecticism

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In psychotherapy, drawing ideas from two or more systems of therapy instead of committing to just one system.

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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A biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions.

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Exposure therapies

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Therapies in which clients are confronted with situations they fear so that they learn that these situations are really harmless.

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Family therapy

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Therapy involving the treatment of a family unit as a whole, in which the main focus is on family dynamics and communication.

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Free association

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A psychoanalytic technique in which clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible.

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Group therapy

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The simultaneous treatment of several clients in a group.

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Insight therapies

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Psychotherapy methods characterized by verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behaviour.

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Interpretation

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In psychoanalysis, the therapist’s attempts to explain the inner significance of the client’s thoughts, feelings, memories, and behaviours.

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Marital therapy

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Therapy that involves the treatment of both partners in a committed, intimate relationship, in which the main focus is on relationship issues.

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Mental hospital

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A medical institution specializing in providing inpatient care for psychological disorders.

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Mood stabilizers

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Drugs used to control mood swings in patients with bipolar mood disorders.

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Placebo effects

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The fact that subjects’ expectations can lead them to experience some change even though they receive an empty, fake, or ineffectual treatment.

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Psychiatrists

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Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.

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Psychoanalysis

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An insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defences through techniques such as free association and transference.

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Psychopharmacotherapy

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The treatment of mental disorders with medication.

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Regression toward the mean

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Effect that occurs when people who score extremely high or low on some trait are measured a second time and their new score falls closer to the mean (average).

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Resistance

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Largely unconscious defensive manoeuvres a client uses to hinder the progress of therapy.

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Social skills training

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A behaviour therapy designed to improve interpersonal skills that emphasizes shaping, modelling, and behavioural rehearsal.

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Spontaneous remission

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Recovery from a disorder without formal treatment.

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Systematic desensitization

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A behaviour therapy used to reduce clients’ anxiety responses through counterconditioning.

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Tardive dyskinesia

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A neurological disorder marked by chronic tremors and involuntary spastic movements.

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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A technique that permits scientists to temporarily enhance or depress activity in a specific area of the brain.

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Transference

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In therapy, the phenomenon that occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives.