Pyschologhy Vocab Chapter 15

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Eclectic Approach

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An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various form of therapy.

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Psychotherapy

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Treatment incolcing psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapis and someone seeking to overcome psychologiccal diggiculties or achieve personal growth.

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Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free association, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist's interpetation of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight.

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Resistance

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In psychoanalysis, th blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

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Interpetation

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In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behavoirs and events in order to promote insight.

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Transference

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In psychoanalysis, the patient's transger to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.

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Psychodynamic therapy

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Therapy deriving from the psychoanlytic traditon that views individuals as responding to unconcsious forces and childhood experieces, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.

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Insight therapies

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A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

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Client-centered therapy

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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine , accepting, empathic enviornment to faciliate clients's growth.

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Active listening

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Empathic listening in whcih the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Roger's client-centered therapy.

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Unconditional positive regard

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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attituede, which Carl Rogers believed to be conducive to developing self-awareness of self-acceptance.

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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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A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical contioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.

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Exposure therapies

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behaviral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid.

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Systematic desensitization

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with graduallly increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greates fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.

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Aversive conditioning

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A type of counterconditioning that associates and Unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior.

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Token economy

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An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and canlater exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.

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Cognitive therapy

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Therapy that teaches people new, more addaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.

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Cognitive-behavior therapy

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A popular intergrated therapy that combines cognitives therapy with behavior therapy.

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Family therapy

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Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.

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Regression torward the mean

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The tendency for extremes of unsual scores to fail back toward their average.

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Meta-analysis

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.

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Evidence-based practice

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Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expeerise and patient characteristics and preferences.

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Biomedical therapy

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Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system.

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of effects of drugs on mind and behavior.

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder.

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Incoluntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors.

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Antianxiety drugs

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drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.

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Antidepressant drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters.

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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A biomedical therapy for severly depressed patients in which a breif electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.

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Psychosurgery

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to changes behavior.

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Lobotomy

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A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrolably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connectiong the frontal loves to the emotion-controlling centers of inner brain.