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Biomedical therapy

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Prescribed meds or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system

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Psychotherapy

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An emotional charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties

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Eclectic approach

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Approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

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Psychoanalysis

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Patients face association, resistance, dreams & the therapy’s interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings. Allowing the patient to gain self insight

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Sigmund Freud

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Developed psychoanalysis (1st psychological therapy), many psychological problems are fueled by childhoods residue of repressed impulses and conflicts

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Free association

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Mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another w/o any apparent connection

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Resistance

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Blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material

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Interpretation

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Analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, & other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight

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Carl Rogers

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Humanistic therapy, person-centered therapy. Atmosphere of comfort. Active listening

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Transference

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Patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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Client-Centered therapy

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Developed by Carl Rogers the therapist uses techniques such as active listening (genuine accepting environment)

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Active listening

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Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies

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Behavior therapy

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Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Counter conditioning

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Conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behavior

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Exposure therapy

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Systematic desensitizion, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear

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Systematic desensitization

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Counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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Progressing exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fear

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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Progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fear

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Aversive conditioning

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Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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Token economy

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Operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior & can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

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Cognitive therapies

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Teaches people new, move adaptive ways of thinking and acting based on the assumption that thoughts intervene w our emotional reactions and events

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Group therapy

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Know other people are struggling too, learn from another.

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Cognitive - Behavior Therapy

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Combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

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Family therapy

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Treats the family as a system

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Regression toward the mean

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Tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average

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Meta-analysis

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Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies