Therapy

Front 1

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Back 1

An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears

Hint 1

Such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking

Front 2

Transference

Back 2

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

Hint 2

Such as love or hatred for a patient

Front 3

Token Economy

Back 3

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

Hint 3

Like going to the boardwalk, playing games, winning tickets and then at the end, you trade in the tickets for prizes

Front 4

Tardive Dyskinesia

Back 4

Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors.

Front 5

Systematic Desensitization

Back 5

A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli

Hint 5

Commonly used to treat phobias

Front 6

Resistance

Back 6

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

Front 7

Repetitve Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

Back 7

The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain

Hint 7

Used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

Front 8

Regression toward the mean

Back 8

The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average

Front 9

Psychotherapy

Back 9

An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties

Front 10

Psychosurgery

Back 10

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

Front 11

Psychopharmacology

Back 11

The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

Front 12

Psychoanalysis

Back 12

Therapeutic technique; believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

Hint 12

Sigmund Freud

Front 13

Meta-analysis

Back 13

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

Front 14

Lobotomy

Back 14

A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain

Front 15

Interpretation

Back 15

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

Front 16

Family Therapy

Back 16

Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication

Front 17

Exposure Therapies

Back 17

Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid

Hint 17

Such as a systematic Desensitization

Front 18

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Back 18

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

Front 19

Eclectic Approach

Back 19

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

Front 20

Counterconditioning

Back 20

A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning.

Hint 20

Includes expose therapy and aversive conditioning.

Front 21

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Back 21

A popular intergrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)

Front 22

Cognitive Therapy

Back 22

Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting

Hint 22

Based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

Front 23

Client-Centered Therapy

Back 23

The therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to faciliate client's growth

Hint 23

Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers

Also called person-centered therapy