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32 Cards in this Set
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Deinstitutionalization
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Over-crowded mental hospitals removed patients who were not considered a threat when better drugs were created
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Meta-analysis
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Systematic statistical method for synthesizing the results of numerous research studies dealing with the same variables
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Free Association
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Having a patient say whatever comes to mind
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Manifest content
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Surface meaning of recalled dream
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Latent content
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Underlying meaning of a dream
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Resistance
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Blocking of anxiety-provoking feelings and experiences
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Transference
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Responding to an analyst as though a significant person in client’s life
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy
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Shorter, less frequent, talking with therapist
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy
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Aims for people to gain insight into the causes of their problems
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Unconditional positive regard
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Providing an atmosphere of acceptance
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Nondirective Psychotherapy
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Encouraging client to take the lead in determining the direction of therapy
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Active Listening
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Involves echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what the client says and does
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Gestalt Therapy
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Goal is to push clients to decide whether to allow past conflicts to control their future or to right now take control
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Behavior Therapy
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Goal is to stop unwanted behavior and replace it with more adaptive behavior
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Systematic Desensitization
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Behavior therapy founded on the idea that an anxiety response is inhibited by an incompatible relaxation response
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Anxiety Hierarchy
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Listing fears from anxiety from least feared, to greatest
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Flooding
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Stopping the conditioned response to help phobias and anxiety disorders
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Behavior Modification
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Client selects a goal and receives a small reward until the intended goal is finally reached
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Social skills training
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Behavior therapy used to improve interpersonal skills by using modeling, behavioral rehearsal and shaping
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Biofeedback
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Behavioral therapy that involves giving the individual immediate info about the degree to which he/she is able to change anxiety-related responses
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Rational Emotive Therapy
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RET)Idea that anxiety, guilt, depression, and other psychological problems result from self-defeating thoughts
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Cognitive restructuring
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Turning faulty and disordered thoughts into more realistic thoughts
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Cognitive Triad
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Looking at what a person thinks about themselves, their world and their future
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Psychopharmacotherapy
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Use of psychotrophic drugs to treat mental illness
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Anxiolytics
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(tranquilizers)Increase the availability of GABA to reduce psychological arousal
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Antidepressants
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Elevate mood by making the neurotransmitters serotonin more available at the synapse to stimulate postsynaptic neurons
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Stimulants
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(Psychoactive drugs) Activate motivational centers and reduce activity in inhibitory centers of the central nervous system by increasing activity of dopamine, etc
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Neuroleptics
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Powerful medicines that reduce tension, decrease hallucinations, etc. Block dopamine receptors
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Tardive Dyskinesia
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Problems with walking, drooling, and muscle spasms. Side effect of Neuroleptics
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Electro Shock Treatment
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(ECT) Last resort to treat severely depressed patients, usually are restored to healthy mental functioning Reason Unknown
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Psychosurgery
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Removal of brain tissue; last resort and irreversible
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Prefrontal Lobotomy
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Cutting the main neural tracts connecting lower brain regions to the frontal lobes to reduce intensity of their emotional responses
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