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| psychotherapy | an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties |
| psychotherapy | treat psychological dosorders that are learned |
| biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system |
| biomedical therapy | treat biologically rooted disorders, schizophrenia |
| eclectic approach | an approach to pyschotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy |
| eclectic approach | psychotherapy integration |
| pyschoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist interpretation of them- released previously repressed feelings , allowing the patient to gain self-insight |
| pyschoanalysis | releasing of repressed feelings to gain self-insight |
| resistence | in pyschoanalysis, the blocking form consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
| resistence | defending against sensitive material |
| interpretation | in pyschanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistences, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight |
| interpretation | provide insight to underlying wishes, feelings, and conflicts |
| transference | in psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships(such as love or hatred for a parent). |
| transference | love or hatred for a parent |
| active listening | empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. |
| active listening | what brian and i need to do |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| behavior therapy | eliminate a troubling behavior |
| counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaivior; based on classical conditioning |
| counterconditioning | exposure therapy and aversive therapy |
| exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid. |
| exposure therapies | expose people to what they normally avoid |
| systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety- triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias. |
| systematic desensitization | commonly used to treat phobias |
| virtually reality exposure therapy | An anxiety treatment that progressivly exposes people to simulations of the greatest fears, such as an airplane, spiders, or public speaking. |
| virtually reality exposure therapy | progressive treatment for fears |
| aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state witha n unwanted behavior |
| aversive conditioning | nausea and drinking alcohol |
| token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behaivor and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats |
| token economy | used in institutional settings |
| cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting |
| cognitive therapy | based on assumption that thoughts intervene btwn events and emotional reactions |
| cognitive-behavior therapy | a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy. |
| cognitive-behavior therapy | changing self defeating thinking and behavior |
| family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system |
| family therapy | views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members |
| meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies |
| meta-analysis | gives bottom-line results |
| pyschopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior |
| pyschopharmacology | antipsychotic drugs dampened repsonsiveness to irrelevant stimuli |
| tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tounge, endlimbs. |
| tardive dyskinesia | A possible neurotic side-effect of long term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 Dopamine receptors |
| electroconvulsive therapy | a biomedical therapy for severly depressed patients |
| electroconvulsive therapy | a brief electrical current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |
| repetitive transcranial magnetic stimuations | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain |
| repetitive transcranial magnetic stimuations | used to stimulate or supress brain activity |
| psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
| psychosurgery | most dramatic and least-used biomedical interventionfor changin behavior |
| lobotomy | a now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients |
| lobotomy | cuts the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain. |
