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psychotherapy
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treatment using psychological techniques to help someone suffering psychological difficulties
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counseling
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tends to focus; equally past, present and future; problems and solutions
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Behavioral Therapy
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flooding, gradual exposure, conditioning, systemic desensitization
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evaluation of Behavioral (conditioning)
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effective for anxiety-related problems
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evaluation of Behavioral(operant)
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effective for wide range of behavioral problems; rewarding desirable behaviors
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Cognitive Therapy
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constant repetition of negative thoughts leads to abnormality; goal is to challenge the negative thoughts/schemes
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Cognitive therapy (rational-emotive behavior therapy)
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acts to remove unreasonable cognitive beliefs
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Psychodynamic Therapy
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focuses on unconscious processes manifested in client's present behavior; seekto relieve symptoms by developing insight; long term or brief therapy
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Evaluation of psychodynamic therapy
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better for anxiety disorders than schizophrenia; better educated clients do better in therapy
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Humanistic Therapy
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assumes people must be understood from their own point of view; therapists role is to provide unconditional positive regard, genuineness, non-directive guidance
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Evaluation of Gestalt Therapy
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makes people aware of their own basic needs and desires
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Couples/Family Therapy
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interpersonal dynamics lead to abnormality; focus on improving communication
techniques (switch roles, power structure, and group discussion) |
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Evaluation of couples/family therapy
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more successful in conjoint therapy than individual therapy; not always clinically significant
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Psychotherapy integration
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integration seeks to determine common ground among varioius therapy schools
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technical eclectics
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therapist uses techniques from disciplines without adopting theories that spawned them
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common factorism
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strategies common to all therapies
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theoretical integration
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synthesizes both theory and technique across schools
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