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Psychotherapy |
the process for resolving personal, emotional, behavioral, and social problems so as to improve well-being |
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Barriers |
factors that prevent individuals from receiving therapy include; financial, cognitive, cultural, and time |
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Minimalize |
when people view their symptom as less serve than others may believe |
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Stigma |
the collection of negative sterotypes |
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Gender roles |
Masculine-emphasize emotional strength, which conflicts with the acknowledgement of talking through emotions and interpersonal problems |
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Clinical Psychologists (for the mentally diagnosed) |
mental health professionals with doctoral degrees who diagnose and treat mental health problems ranging from the everyday to the chronic and severe |
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Counseling Psychologists (for the everyday person) |
mental health professionals who typically work with people needing help with common problems such as stress, coping, and mild forms of anxiety and depression, rather than severe mental disorders. |
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Psychiatrists (diagnose and prescribe drugs) |
are physicians who specialized in mental health, and who diagnose and treat mental disorders primarily through prescribing medications that influence brain chemistry often found in hospitals and institutional settings |
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Deinstitutionalization |
this movement pushed for returning people from mental institutions to their communities and families and enabling them to receive treatment on an outpatient basis. |
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Residential Treatment Centers |
centers that provide psychotherapy and life skills training so that the residents can become integrated into society to the greatest extent possible low, medium and high levels depending on how dangerous a person has been in the past |
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Community Psychology |
an area of psychology that focuses on identifying how individuals' mental health is influenced by the neighborhood, economics, social groups, and other community-based variables |
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Empirically supported treatments |
treatments that have been tested and evaluated using sound research designs |
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therapeutic alliance |
the relationship that emerges in therapy |
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bibliotherapy |
the use of self-help books and other reading materials as a form of therapy has been experimentally tested |
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Hippocratic Oath |
an agree of medical doctors that states they will cause no harm to their patients |
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Insight therapies (a conversation) "so how to do you feel about that?" |
a general term referring to psychotherapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts |
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Psychodynamic therapies |
forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts |
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Psychoanalysis |
an insight therapy developed by Sigmund Freud that became the precursor to modern psychodynamic therapies |
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Unconscious motivation |
fundamental urges, such as sexuality, appetites, and aggression, are constantly influencing how we think and behave, even when we are not aware of them |
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Free association |
instructs the patient to reveal any thoughts that arise, no matter how odd or meaningless they may seem a chance to reveal something important |
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Dream analysis |
a method of understanding unconscious thought by interpreting the manifest content (what happens in the dream) to get a sense of latent content (the unconscious that motivated the dream) |
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Resistance |
a tendency to avoid directly answering crucial questions posed by the therapist |
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Transference |
a psychoanalytic process that involves patients directing the emotional experiences that they are reliving toward the therapist |
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Object relations therapy |
a variation of psychodynamic therapy that focuses on how early childhood experiences and emotional attachments influence later psychological functiong |
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Person/client-centered therapy |
focuses on individuals' abilities to solve their own problems and reach their full potential with the encouragement of the therapist |
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Condition of worth |
they appear to judge or lose affection for a person who does not live up to expectations |
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interpersonal therapy |
a style of psychodynamic therapy that was developed by psychologists Sullivan and Klerman to treat depression |
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Behavioral therapies |
address problems behaviors and thoughts, and the environment factors that trigger them, as directly as possible |
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Exposure treatments |
a process in which exposure to the feared situations is completed gradually and under controlled conditions |
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Systematic desensitization |
a technique in which gradual exposure to a feared stimulus or situation is blended with relaxation training |
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Flooding |
a process in which a client goes straight to the most challenging part of the hierarchy, exposing himself to the scenario that cause the most anxiety and panic patient dives right in to his phobia |
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Modeling |
a process in which a client observes another person engaged with the feared objects or situation |
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Virtual reality exposure (VRE) |
a treatment that uses graphical displays to create an experience in which the client seems to be immersed in an actual environment |
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Aversive conditioning |
a behavioral technique that involves replacing a positive response to a stimulus with a negative response, typical by using punishment |
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy |
a form of therapy that consists of procedures such as exposure, cognitive restructuring, and stress inoculation training |
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Stress inoculation training |
helps the client put traumatic memories into perspective in a way that promotes the individual's well being |
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Systems approach |
an orientation toward family therapy that involves identifying and understanding what each individual family member contributes to the entire family dynamic |
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Cingulotomy |
a surgery that involves destroying four small, raisin-sized sets of nerve cells deep inside the brain |
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Psychopharmacotherapy |
the process of treating psychological disorders with drugs |
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Psychotropic drugs |
medications designed to alter psychological functioning |
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Blood-brain barrier |
a network of tightly packed cells that only allow specific types of substances to move from the bloodstream to the brain helps protect the brain from harmful infections and other substances |
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Antidepressant drugs (antidepressants) |
medical prescribed to elevate mood and reduce other symptoms of depression |
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Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) |
a type of antidepressant that deactivates monoamine oxidase, an enzyme that breaks down serotonin, dopamine, and neropinephrine at the synaptic clefts of nerve cells |
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Tricyclic antidepressants |
the most earliest types of antidepressants on the market and appear to work by blocking the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine |
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Reuptake |
the absorption by a presynaptic nerve ending of a neurotransmitter that it has secreted.
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) |
a class of antidepressant drugs that block the reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin |
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Neurogenesis |
the growth of brand-new neutrons |
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Mood stabilizers |
drugs used to prevent or reduce the manic side of bipolar disorder |
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Lithium |
one of the first mood stabilizers to be prescribed regularly in psychiatry from 1950s-1980s it was the standard |
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Valproate (Depakote) |
the anticonvulsant medication that bipolar patients now take side effects include weight gain, restlessness, failing to retake medication |
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Antianxiety drugs |
prescribed to alleviate nervousness and tension, and to prevent and reduce panic attacks |
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Antipsychotic drugs |
drugs used to treat disorders such as schizophrenia and they are sometimes prescribed to people with severe mood disorders |
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Tardive dyskinesia |
a neurological condition marked by involuntary movements and facial tics |
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atypical antipsychotics |
the newer generations of medications that reduce dopamine and serotonin reduces symptoms but doesn't get rid of them entirely symptoms can return |
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St. John wort |
an herbal remedy available in drugstores that has a long history of use as a treatment for various conditions |
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Leison |
a damaged area of tissue such as a cluster of nerve cells never used on human subjects for research purposes |
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
a psychiatric treatment in which an electrical current is passed through the brain to induce a temporary seizure introduced in 1930s and has a negative past |
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) |
a therapeutic technique in which a focal area of the brain is exposed to a powerful but safe magnetic field |
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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) |
a technique that involves electrically stimulating highly specific regions of the brain produces instant results side effects include internal bleeding and infection |
