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Medications that relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness.
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Antianxiety drugs
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Medications that gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of a depression.
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Antidepressant drugs
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Medications used to gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions.
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Antipsychotic drugs
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A behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable response.
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Aversion therapy
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Application of the principles of learning to direct efforts to change clients’ maladaptive behaviors.
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Behavior therapies
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Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders.
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Biomedical therapies
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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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Client-centered therapy
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Psychologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems.
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Clinical psychologists
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An insight therapy that emphasizes recognizing and changing negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs.
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Cognitive therapy
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A varied combination of verbal interventions and behavioral modification techniques used to help clients change maladaptive patterns of thinking.
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Cognitive-behavioral treatments
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Psychologists who specialize in the treatment of everyday adjustment problems.
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Counseling psychologists
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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.
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Deep brain stimulation
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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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Deinstitutionalization
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A psychoanalytic technique in which the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client’s dreams.
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Dream analysis
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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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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
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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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Free association
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The simultaneous treatment of several clients in a group.
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Group therapy
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Psychotherapy methods characterized by verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior.
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Insight therapies
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A medical institution specializing in providing inpatient care for psychological disorders.
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Mental hospital
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Drugs used to control mood swings in patients with bipolar mood disorders.
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Mood stabilizers
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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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Placebo effects
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Approach to psychology that uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence.
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Positive psychology
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Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.
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Psychiatrists
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An insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference.
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Psychoanalysis
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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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Regression toward the mean
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Largely unconscious defensive maneuvers a client uses to hinder the progress of therapy.
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Resistance
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A behavior therapy designed to improve interpersonal skills that emphasizes shaping, modeling, and behavioral rehearsal.
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Social skills training
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A behavior therapy used to reduce clients’ anxiety responses through counterconditioning.
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Systematic desensitization
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A neurological disorder marked by chronic tremors and involuntary spastic movements.
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Tardive dyskinesia
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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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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
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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.
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Transference
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