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What is psychoanalysis?

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Insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives and defenses through free association and transference

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What is client-centered therapy?

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Insight therapy that emphasizing providing a supportive emotional climate for clients who lead where the therapy is going

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What is cognitive therapy?

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Uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders

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What is behavioral therapy?

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Involved the application of learning principles to direct efforts to change clients maladaptive behaviors

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What is biomedical therapy?

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Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders

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What is psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Who seeks therapy?

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15% of people / year

Middle class, educated, insured, females, middle age

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What are people suffering from when they go see therapists?

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Excessive anxiety and depression

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What degree do you need to have in order to be a psychiatrist?

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Medical degree

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What kind of patients do psychiatrists treat?

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Those who need medicine to balance brain chemicals

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What kind of degree does a psychologist need?

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PhD, Psy. D

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What kind of people do psychologists treat?

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Treat every day problems and people with disorders in hospital settings

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What are clinical counseling psychologists?

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Specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems

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What is Sigmund Freud associated with?

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Transference, resistance and psychotherapy

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What is transference?

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Patients transfer to the analyze the emotions linked to other relationships

Redirecting feelings from one person to another

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What is resistance?

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Largely unconscious defense maneuvers intended to hinder the process of therapy

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What are the basic concepts of psychotherapy?

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Dream analysis, free association, and the unconscious

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What is dream analysis?

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The therapist intercepts the symbolic meaning of a clients dream

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What is free association?

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Client spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur , with little censorship as possible

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What is Carl Rogers associated with?

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Genuineness, empathy, unconditional positive regard and in congruence

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What is unconditional positive regard?

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Constantly positive, always sees the good in people

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What is incongruence?

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When the patients ideal and perceived self aren’t the same

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What is tar dice dyskinesia?

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Neurological disorder marked by involuntary writhing and tic like movement of the mouth, tongue, face, hands, or feet

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What is aversion therapy?

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A behavior therapy and what universe stimulus is paired with the stimulus that elicits an undesirable response

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What are antidepressant drugs
Gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of depression
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What is systematic desensitization
A behavior therapy used to reduce phobic clients anxiety responses through counterconditioning
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What are antipsychotic drugs
Gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions
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What is ECT
Electroconvulsive therapy Shock therapy Biomedical treatment in which an electric shock is used to produce a Cordele seizure accompanied by convulsions
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What is spontaneous remission?
A recovery for him from a disorder that occurs without formal treatment
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What is the behavioral approach with operant conditioning?
Reward/punishment, behavior modifications, and token economy
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What is classical conditioning in a behavioral approach
Systematic desensitization with Wolpe
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Who is Wolpe and why is he important?
Psychologist who introduced classical conditioning with counterconditioning
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What is counterconditioning?
behavior incompatible with a habitual undesirable pattern is induced.
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What is Thorazine?
The classical antipsychotic, but it is used for positive symptoms and can cause tardive dyskinesia
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What is clozapine?
Used to block negative symptoms and blocks receptors for dopamine
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What are some anti-anxiety drugs
Valium, Xanax, and Librium
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What are some antidepressant drugs?
Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil
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What is the most widely prescribed psychotic drug?
Antidepressants
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Cognitive therapy originated in the treatment of which disorder?
Depression
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Who is Aaron Beck?
Father of cognitive therapy
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What is Aaron Beck's View of depression?
Notice that the press people all have the similar outlook on life "take off the dark sunglasses"
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Who is responsible for the rational emotive model
Albert Ellis
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What do you and times I do drugs produce?
GABA
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What does GABA do to the central nervous system
Prohibits central nervous system activity
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What does SSRI stand for
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor's
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What is insight therapy?
Self understanding and promotes healthful hanged in personality and behavior
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What is another name for anti depressants?
SSRI's
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What are Valium, Xanax and Librium considered?
Tranquilizers
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Why would you get put on SSRI's if you're given medicine for the first time for depression?
Most commonly used, and usually works and least amount of side effects
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Which neurotransmitters are linked to depression
Serotonin and norepherene
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What drug would you go to last due to not being able to mix it?
MAO inhibitors
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What is lithium used for?
Bipolar disorder
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What are tricyclics and what do they do
They increase levels of norephinpherine serotonin and dopamine
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What does MAO stand for
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
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What do MAO inhibitors do?
Inhibit enzyme breakdown
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Who is known for psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
Freud
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Who is known for humanistic psychotherapy
Rogers
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Who is known for Cogntive 1: rational emotive therapy?
Ellis
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What is becks approach
Direct therapy, but slowly
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Who is known for counterconditioning?
WOLPE
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Who is known for operant conditioning
Skinner

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