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Medications that relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness.
Antianxiety drugs
Medications that gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of a depression.
Antidepressant drugs
Medications used to gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions.
Antipsychotic drugs
A behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable response.
Aversion therapy
Application of the principles of learning to direct efforts to change clients’ maladaptive behaviors.
Behavior therapies
Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders.
Biomedical therapies
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.
Client-centered therapy
Psychologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems.
Clinical psychologists
An insight therapy that emphasizes recognizing and changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs.
Cognitive therapy
A varied combination of verbal interventions and behavioral modification techniques used to help clients change maladaptive patterns of thinking.
Cognitive-behavioral treatments
Psychologists who specialize in the treatment of everyday adjustment problems.
Counseling psychologists
Approach to treating psychological disorders in which a thin electrode is surgically 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.
Deep brain stimulation
Transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community-based facilities that emphasize outpatient care.
Deinstitutionalization
A psychoanalytic technique in which the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client’s dreams.
Dream analysis
A biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
A psychoanalytic technique in which clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible.
Free association
The simultaneous treatment of several clients in a group.
Group therapy
Psychotherapy methods characterized by verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior.
Insight therapies
A medical institution specializing in providing inpatient care for psychological disorders.
Mental hospital
Drugs used to control mood swings in patients with bipolar mood disorders.
Mood stabilizers
The fact that subjects’ expectations can lead them to experience some change even though they receive an empty, fake, or ineffectual treatment.
Placebo effects
Approach to psychology that uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence.
Positive psychology
Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.
Psychiatrists
An insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference.
Psychoanalysis
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).
Regression toward the mean
Largely unconscious defensive maneuvers a client uses to hinder the progress of therapy.
Resistance
A behavior therapy designed to improve interpersonal skills that emphasizes shaping, modeling, and behavioral rehearsal.
Social skills training
A behavior therapy used to reduce clients’ anxiety responses through counterconditioning.
Systematic desensitization
A neurological disorder marked by chronic tremors and involuntary spastic movements.
Tardive dyskinesia
A technique that permits scientists to temporarily enhance or depress activity in a specific area of the brain.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
In therapy, the phenomenon that occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives.
Transference