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psychotherapy |
treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth |
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biomedical therapy |
prescribed medication or procedures that act directly on the persona physiology |
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eclectic approach |
an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy |
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psychoanalysis |
Sigmund Freuds therapeutic technique. believed that a persons free associations, resistance's, dreams, and transferences release repressed memories |
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resistance |
in psychoanalysis, the blocking form copiousness of anxiety-laden material |
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interpretation |
in psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight |
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transference |
in psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the angst of emotions linked with other relationships |
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psychodynamic therapy |
therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and seeks to enhance self-insight |
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insight therapies |
a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a persona awareness of underlying motives and defenses |
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client-centered therapy |
a humanistic therapy, developed by carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients growth |
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active listening |
empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restate, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers client-centered therapy |
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unconditional positive regard |
a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which carl rogers believed would help clients developed self-awareness and self-acceptance |
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behavior therapy |
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
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counter conditioning |
behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors |
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virtual reality exposure therapy |
an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fear, such as airplane flying, spiders ect |
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aversive conditioning |
a type of countercondtioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted therapy |
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token economy |
an operant conditioning procedure in which people urn a token of some sort in exchange for good behavior. AA |
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group therapy |
therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction |
