Chapter 17

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Biomedical Therapy

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

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Psychotherapy

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

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Electric Approach

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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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Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences.

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Sigmund Freud

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developed psychoanalysis, which was the first of the psychological therapies.

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Free Association

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A method do exploring the unconscious in which a person says whatever comes to mind no matter how embarrassing.

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Resistance

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The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

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Interpretation

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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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Transference

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In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.

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Client-Centered Therapy

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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth.

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Carl Rodgers

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Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies

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Active Learning

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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.

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Behavioral Therapy

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

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Counterconditioning

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A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning.

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Exposure Therapy

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Exposing people to things the fear or avoid.

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Systematic Desensitization

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

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Aversive Conditioning

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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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Token Economy

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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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Cognitive Therapies

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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting.

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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

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A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy.

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Group Therapy

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Normally consists of 6+ people that helps people know they’re not alone.

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Family Therapy

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Therapy that treats a family as a system

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Regression Toward the Mean

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The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average

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Meta-Analysis

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

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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

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A therapy in which the therapist attempts to unlock and process?????

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Light Exposure Therapy

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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a form of depression treat by exposure to light.

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs in mind and behavior.

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Antipsychotic Drugs

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Dampen the responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli.

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, younge, and limbs.

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Antianxiety Drugs

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Drugs that depress the central nervous system and reduce a direr by evaluating the GABA neurotransmitter.

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Antidepressant Drug

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Drugs that improve moods by evaluating levels of serotonin by inhibiting reuptake.

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SSRI’s

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Drugs that block reuptake.

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Lithium

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Mood stabilizing medication (helps with bipolar depression).

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

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Used for server depressed patients who do not respond to drugs. (100 volt shock)

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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

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A pulsing magnetic coil is placed over the prefrontal regions of the brain or treat depression.

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Psychosurgery

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

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Lobotomy

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Procedure that cuts the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain.

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Placebo Affect

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Double Blind Procedure

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