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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
Eclectic Approach |
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treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. |
Psychotherapy |
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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud 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. |
Psychoanalysis |
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in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
Resistance |
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in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. |
Interpretation |
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in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships |
Transference |
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therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight |
Psychodynamic Therapy |
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a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses. |
Insight 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, empathetic environment to facilitate client's growth. |
Client-Centered Therapy |
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empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Roger's client-centered therapy. |
Active Listening |
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a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. |
Unconditional Positive Regard |
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therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |
Behavior Therapy |
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a behavior therapy procedure that used classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. |
Counterconditioning |
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behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid. |
Exposure Therapies |
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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. |
Systematic Desensitization |
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an anxiety treatment that progressively exposures people to simulations of their greatest fears. |
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy |
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a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. |
Aversive Conditioning |
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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. |
Token Economy |
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therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene events and our emotional reactions. |
Cognitive Therapy |
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a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy. |
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy |
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therapy that treats the family as a system. Views individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members. |
Family Therapy |
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the tendency of extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average. |
Regression Toward the Mean |
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a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies. |
Meta-Analysis |
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clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences. |
Evidence-Based Practice |
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prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system. |
Biomedical Therapy |
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the study of drugs on mind and behavior. |
Psychopharmacology |
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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder |
Antipsychotic Drugs |
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involuntary movements of facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors. |
Tardive Dyskinesia |
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drugs used to control anxiety and agitation. |
Antianxiety 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. |
Antidepressant Drugs |
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a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient. |
Electroconvulsive Therapy |
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the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. |
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation |
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surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior. |
Psychosurgery |
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a now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain. |
Lobotomy |
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the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma. |
Resilience |