Psychology Ch. 13

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the use of psychological techniques to treat personality and behavior disorders

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psychotherapy

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a variety of individual psycholtherapies designed to give people a better awareness and understanding of their feelings, motivations, and actions in the hope that this will help them to adjust

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insight therapies

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the theory of personality Freud developled as well as the form of therapy he invented

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psychoanalysis

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a psychoanalytic technique that encourages the person to talk without inhibition about whatever thoughts or fantasies come to mind

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free association

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the client's carrying over to the analyst feelings held toward childhood authority figures

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transference

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awareness of previously unconsicoud feelings and memories and how they influence present feelings and behaviors

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insight

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nondirectional form of therapy developed by Carl Rogers that calls for unconditional positive regard of the client by the therapist with the goal of helping the client become fully functioning

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client-centered (or person-centered) therapy

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an insight therapy that emphasized the wholess of the personality and attempts to reawaken people to their emotions and sensations in the present

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Gestalt therapy

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insight therapy that is time limited and focused on trying to help clients correct the immediate problems in their own lives

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short-term psychodynamic therapy

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therapeutic approaches that are based on the belief that all behavior, normal and abnorma, is learend, and that the objective of therapy is to teach people new, more satisfying ways of behaving

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behavior therories

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a behavioral technique for reducing a person's fear and anxiety by gradually associating a new response (relaxation) with stimuli that have been causing the fear and anxiety

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systematic desensitization

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behavior therapy techniques aimed at elminating undesirable behavior patterns by teaching the person to associate them with pain and discomfort

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aversive conditioning

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form of operant conditioning therapy in which the client and therapist set behavioral goals and agree on reinforcements that the client will receive on reaching those goals

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behavioral contracting

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an operant conditioning therapy in which people earn tokens (reinforcers) for desired behavior and exchange them for desired items or privileges

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token economy

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a behavioral therapy in which the person learns desired behaviors by watching others perform those behaviors

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modeling

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psychotherapies that emphasize changing clients' perceptions of ther life situation as a way of modifying their behavior

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cognitive therapies

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a type of cognitive therapy that trains clients to cope with stressful situations by learning a more useful pattern of self-talk

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stress-inoculation therapy

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a directive cognitive therapy based on the idea that clients' psychological distress is caused by irrational self-defeating beliefs and that the therapist's job is to challenge such dysfunctional beliefs

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rational-emotive therapy (RET)

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therapy that depends on identfying and change inappropriately negative and self-critical patternso of thought

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cognitive therapy

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type of psychotherapy in which clients meet regularly to interact and help one another achieve insight into ther feelings and behavior

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group therapy

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a form of group therapy that sees the family as at least partly responsible for the individual's problems and that seeks to change all family members' behaviros to the benefit of the family unit as well as the troubled individual

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family therapy

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a form of group therapy intended to help troubed partners improve their own problems of communication and interaction

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couple therapy

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psychotherapeutic approach that recognizes the vaule of a braod treatment package over a rigid commitment to one particualr form of therapy

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eclecticism

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a group of approaches, including medication, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery, that are sometimes used to treat psychological disorders in conjunction with, or instead of, psychotherapy

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biological treatments

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drugs used to treat very sever psychological disorders, particularly schizophrenia

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antipsychotic drugs

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biological therapy in which a mild electrical current is passed through the brain for a short period, often producing convulsions and temporary coma; used to treat severe, prolonged depression

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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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brain surgery performed to change a person's behavior and emotional state; a biological therapy rarely used today

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psychosurgery

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policy of treating people with severe psychological disorders in the larger communityor in small residential centers such as halfway houess, rather than in large public hospitals

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deinstitutionalization

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techniques and programs to improve the social environment so that new cases of mental disorders do not develop

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primary prevention

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programs to identify groups that are at high risk for mental disorders and to dectiect maladaptive behavior in these groups and treat it promptly

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secondary prevention

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programs to help people adjust to community life after relase from a mental hospital

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teritary prevention