| A | B |
|---|
| public facilities | funded by the govt.; offers rountine care using primarily drug therapy |
| private facilities | privately funded; offers more extensive care; expensive |
| halfway houses | group homes used to transition patients back into society from treatment facilities |
| psychiatrist | medical doctor specializing in treating psychological disorders; can prescribe drugs |
| psychologist | licensed to practice psychology |
| empathy | warmth and understanding |
| lithium | drug of choice for bipolar disorder; antidepressent drug |
| anti anxiety drugs | slows down the CNS; largest group of prescribed drugs |
| anti depressent drugs | used to relieve depression; SSRIs, MAO inhibitors, atypicals, tricyclics, etc |
| antipsychotic drugs | used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses |
| tardive dyskinesia | side effect of antipsychotics; lose control of the tongue and other muscles |
| ECT | electroconvulsive shock therapy; used to treat very severe cases of depression; side effects |
| psychoanalysis | therapy developed by Freud emphasizing unconscious conflicts and bringing them to the surface |
| resistance | psychoanalytic term for the blocking from consciousness of anxiety provoking memories |
| transference | psychoanalytic term for a patient's redirecting, to the analyst, emotions from other relationships |
| psychotherapy | "talk therapy"; variety of types; common form of treatment |
| person/client centered therapy | based on the ideas of Rogers; therapist is the guide for the client to solve their own problems |
| reflection of feelings/active listening | when a therapist paraphrases and repeats back to the client what they said |
| Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) | based on the ideas of Ellis; rational or irrational beliefs lead to actions which leads to consequences |
| didactic teaching | used in RET; reteach belief system |
| cognitive therapy | based on the idea that mental illness is due to faulty thought processes |
| Gestalt therapy | therapy focusing on the "here and now"; attempts to get the patient to get in touch with what they are feeling at that moment; wholeness |
| empty chair technique | technique used in Gestalt in which the client is instructed to assume the person they want to speak with is in the chair in front of them and then discuss their real feelings |
| Behavior therapies | based in Behaviorism; treatment is based on observable, measurable behaviors |
| aversive therapy | form of behavior therapy in which an unpleasant stimuli is paired with the unwanted behavior |
| systematic desensitization | form of behavior therapy in which the patient is slowly introduced to the desired behavior step by step; creating and working through an anxiety hierarchy |
| implosive therapy/flooding | form of behavior therapy in which the patient is confronted with their fears |
| simple extinction | form of behavior therapy in which the undesired behavior is not given reinforcement, therefore the behavior will extinguish |
| modeling | form of behavior therapy in which the patient observes and imitates behavior |
| group therapy | based on the idea that people with similar problems can better understand one another; therefore, offer greater support |
| types of group therapy | family therapy, marriage counseling, NA, AA, GA |
| ecelectic | taking from many different ideas |
| deinstitutionalization | policy of releasing patients from mental institutions who appear to have been positively effected by their therapy |
| unconditional positive regard | technique of providing a nonjudgmental, accepting atmosphere |
| psychodrama | technique used in therapy where group members role play each others problems and find others ways to solve them |
| community prevention programs | intended to educated community to understanding, preventing and dealing with mental illness |
| existential therapy | type of humanistic therapy focusing on having a meaningful and purposeful life |
| exposure therapy | types of behavior therapies which expose the subject to the things they fear or avoid |
| Wolpe | described the behavioral technique known as systematic desensitization (expanded on Mary Cover Jones work with counter conditioning) |
| virtual reality exposure therapy | anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as spiders, public speaking, etc |
| light exposure therapy | used in the treatment of SAD; exposure to daily doses of intense light; increases activity in the adrenal gland and superchiasmatic nucleus |
| neuroleptics | type of antipsychotic drug traditionally blocks dopamine receptors |
| SSRIs | type of anti depresant which blocks serotonin reuptake |
| rTMS | application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used ot stimulate or supress brain activity |
| interpersonal psychotherapy | contemporary Gestalt emphasizing the here and now |
| insight therapy | humanistic non-directive approach |
| cognitive behavioral therapy | most widely practiced psychotherapy today; thoughts and actions |
