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Psychotherapy

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An interaction between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.

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Biomedical Therapy

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Is the use of prescribed medications or medical procedures that act on a person's physiology to treat psychological disorders.

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Eclectic Approach

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therapists not locked into one form of psych,but draw on whatever combination seems best suited for the client's problems.

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Psychoanalysis

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Developed by sigmund freud. Attempts to give clients self-insight by bringing awareness and interpreting previously repressed feelings.

* Uses free association, dream analysis, and interpretation of repressed impulses.

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Resistance

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Psychoanalytic term for the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden memories. Hesitation during free association may reflect resistance.

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Interpretation

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the psychoanalytic term for the analyst's helping the patient to understand resistances and other aspects of behavior, so that patient may gain deeper insights.

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Tranference

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psychoanalytic terms for a patent's redirecting to the analyst emotions from other relationships.

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Psychodynamic therapy

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- derived from psychodynamic tradition.

Seeks to enhance patients' self-insight into their symptoms by focusing on childhood experiences and important relationships in addition to unconscious forces.

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Insight Therapies

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such as psychodynamic and humanist therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

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Client-centered therapy

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Is a humanistic non-directive therapy developed by Carl Rogers, in which growth and self-awarness are facilitated in an environment that offers genuineness, acceptance, and empathy. Also called person-centered therapy.

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Active Listening

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a nondirective technique of Rogers client-centered therapy, in which the listener echoes, restates, and seeks clarification of, but does not interpret clients' remarks.

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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refers to the accepting, nonjudgemental attitude that is the basis of Rogers client-centered therapy.

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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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Category of behavior therapy in which new responses are classically conditioned to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.

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Exposure Therapies

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treat anxiety by exposing people to things they fear.

* Systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure.

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Systematic desensitization

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type of exposure therapy in which a state of relaxation is classically conditioned to a hierachy of gradually increasing anxiety-provoking stimuli

* this is form of counterconditioning in which sensitive, anxiety-triggering stimuli are desensitized in a progressive or systematic fashion.

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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

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preogressively exposes people to electronic stimulations of feared situations to treat their anxiety.

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Aversive conditioning

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form of counterconditioning in which an unpleasant state is associated with an unwanted behavior.

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Token economy

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An operant conditioning procedure in which desirable behaviors are promoted by people rewarding them with tokens, or positive reinforcers.

* mostly used in schools, hospitals, and institutional settings.

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Cognitive Therapy

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Focuses on teaching people new and more adapative ways of thinking. The therapy is based on the idea that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.

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Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (CBT)

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is a popular integrative therapy that focuses on changed self-defeating thinking (cognitive therapy) and unwanted behaviors (behavior therapy).

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Family Therapy

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treats the family as a system and so views problem behavior as influenced by, or directed at, other members of the individual's family.

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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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Therapeutic Alliance

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the bond of trust that develops between a therapist and client working together to overcome the client's problem.

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Psychopharmacology

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the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.

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Antipsychotic drugs

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used to treat schizophrenia and other evere thought disorders.

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Antianxiety drugs

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depress activity in central nervous system

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Antidepressant drugs

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treat depression, anxiety disorders, ocd, and ptsd.

Many are selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors - SSRIs

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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a biomedical therapy often used to treat severe depression, a brief shock is passed through the brain of an anesthetized patient.

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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is the delivery of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to stimulate or suppress brain activity.

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Psychosurgery

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a biomedical therapy that attempts to change behavior by removing or destroying brain tissue. Since drug therapy became widely available in the 1950s, psychosurgery has been infrequently used.

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Lobotomy

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-used for violent patients

- nerves linking the emotion centers of the brain to the frtonal lobes are severed.

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Resilience

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A person's ability to cope with stress and recover.

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Posttraumtic growth

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positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises.