chapter 16 therapy recognition Flashcards

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treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.

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psychotherapy

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prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.

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biomedical therapy

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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

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eclectic approach

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Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences – and the therapist’s interpretation of them – released previously repressed feelings. Allowing the patient to grain self-insight.

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psychoanalysis

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in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

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resistance

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in psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.

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interpretation

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in psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).

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transference

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therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.

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psychodynamic therapy

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a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

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insight therapies

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a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses technique such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.)

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Client-centered therapy

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emphatic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy.

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active listening

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a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.

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unconditional positive regard

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therapy that apples learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

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behavior therapy

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a behavior therapy procedure uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning..

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counterconditioning

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behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear or avoid.

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exposure therapies

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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.

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systematic desensitization

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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).

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aversive conditioning

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

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token economy

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therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.

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cognitive therapy

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a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions.

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Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

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a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy

23
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therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction.

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group therapy

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therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.

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family therapy

25
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the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average

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regression toward the mean

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a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.

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Meta-analysis

27
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clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.

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Evidence-based practice

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a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problem.

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therapeutic alliance

29
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the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.

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psychopharmacology

30
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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe disorder.

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antipsychotic drugs

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drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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antianxiety drugs

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drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters.

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antidepressant drugs

33
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a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.

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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.

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repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

35
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surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.

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psychosurgery

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a psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotion or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.

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lobotomy

37
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the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.

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resilience