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Psychotherapy
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Treatment of mental disorders by psychological methods
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Manualized therapy
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Standarization of psychological treatment ( a manual) to fit the ramdomized clinical padagrim
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Psychopharmacology
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Science of determining which drugs alleviate which disorder and why they do so.
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Half-life
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Is the time it takes for the levels of active drug in the body to be reduced by 50%.
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Tardive Dyskinesia
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Neurological disorder resulting from the excessive use of antipsychotic drug.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Use of electricity to produce colvulsions and unconsiousness; a treatment used primarily to alleviate depressive and manic episodes. also known as electroschock therapy.
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Neurosurgery
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Surgery of the nevous system, specially the brain.
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Behavioral Therapy
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Use of theraputic procedures based primarily on principles of classical and opperant conditioning.
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Systematic Desensitation
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Behavioral Therapy technique for extingushing maladtive anxiety response by teaching a person to relax while in the presence of the anxiety-producing stimulus.
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Modeling
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Patient learns a new skills by immitating another person, such as a parent or therapist, who peforms the behavior to be acquired.
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Response Shaping
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Possitive reinforcement is used to stablish, by gradual approximation, a response that is actually resisted or is not initially in an individual's behavior repertoite.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Therapy based on altering dysfunctional thoughts and cognitive dysfunction.
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Rational-emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
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Form of psychotherapy focusing on changing a clients maladaptive thought processes, on which maladaptive emotional responses and thus behavior are resumed to depend.
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Client Centered Therapy
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Nondirective approach to psychotherapy, developed chiefly by carl rogers, that focuses on the natural power of the organism to heal itself.
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Psychodinamic Therapy
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Is a treatment approach that focuses on the individual's personality dynamics usually form a psychoanalitically derived perspective.
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Free Association
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Method for probing the unconcious by having patients talk freely about themselves, their feelings and their motives.
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Recistance
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An unwillingness or inability to talk about certain motives or expiriences
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Transference
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Process whereby clients project onto the therapist attitudes and feelings that they had for a parent or others close to them.
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Counter-Transference
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psychodinamic concept that the therapist brings personal issues based on his or her own vulnerabilities and conflicts to the theraputic relationship.
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Traditional Behavioral Coupple therapy
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Widely used form of therapy that uses behavioral approaches to bring about changes in the marital relationship.
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Integrative Behavioral Cupples Therapy
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Modification of traditional behavioral couples therapy that focuses on acceptanceof the partner rather than being solely change oriented
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Family therapy
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A treatment approach that includes all family members, not just the identefied patient.
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Structured Family Therapy
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Treatment of an entire family by analysis of interaction among family members.
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