Unit 13- Treatment

Question 1

psychotherapy

Answer 1

treatment involving psychological techniques; achieve personal growth

Question 2

biomedical therapy

Answer 2

prescribed medications act on person’s physiology

Question 3

eclectic approach

Answer 3

depending on the client’s problems, various therapy forms

Question 4

psychoanalysis

Answer 4

release repressed feelings to gain self-insight, freud

Question 5

resistance

Answer 5

blocking consciousness from anxiety-laden material

Question 6

interpretation

Answer 6

analyst’s noting to promote insight

Question 7

transference

Answer 7

patient’s transfer to analyst of emotions linked with other relationships, the patient may have reactions toward the therapist that are actually based on feelings toward someone from the past

Question 8

psychodynamic therapy

Answer 8

clients respond to unconscious/childhood, to gain self-insight, less intensive version of psychoanalysis

Question 9

insight therapies

Answer 9

aim to improve psychological functioning; increase person’s awareness

Question 10

client-centered therapy

Answer 10

active listening, empathic/accepting environment, Carl Rogers, humanistic, maslow

Question 11

active listening

Answer 11

empathic listening, listener restates/clarifies

Question 12

unconditional positive regard

Answer 12

caring, accepting, non-judgemental attitude

Question 13

behavior therapy

Answer 13

applies learning principles to eliminate unwanted behavior, skinner and pavlov

Question 14

counterconditioning

Answer 14

classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors

Question 15

exposure therapies

Answer 15

treat anxieties by exposing people to fears

Question 16

systematic desensitization

Answer 16

associates a pleasant/relaxed state with anxiety stimuli

Question 17

virtual reality exposure therapy

Answer 17

expose people to electronic simulations of greatest fears

Question 18

aversive conditioning

Answer 18

associates unpleasant state with unwanted behavior

Question 19

token economy

Answer 19

people earn a reward for desired behavior

Question 20

cognitive therapy

Answer 20

teaches people new, adaptive ways of thinking, aaron beck and albert ellis

Question 21

rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

Answer 21

challenges self-defeating attitudes and assumptions

Question 22

cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

Answer 22

cognitive plus behavior therapy

Question 23

group therapy

Answer 23

therapy with groups rather than individual

Question 24

family therapy

Answer 24

allows therapist to work on family system, individual’s unwanted behavior is influenced/directed at family

Question 25

regression toward the mean

Answer 25

extreme scores to fall back to average; drifting from initial crisis back to an average state.

Question 26

meta analysis

Answer 26

statistically combining results of different research studies

Question 27

evidence based practice

Answer 27

best research integrated with patient

Question 28

therapeutic alliance

Answer 28

bond of trust between client and therapist

Question 29

resillience

Answer 29

personal strength that helps people cope and recover

Question 30

psychopharmacology

Answer 30

study of the effects of drugs on mind/behavior

Question 31

antipsychotic drugs

Answer 31

drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other severe thought disorder

Question 32

antianxiety drugs

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control anxiety and agitation

Question 33

antidepressant drugs

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treat depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD (SSRI is used widely)

Question 34

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Answer 34

electric current sent through brain, for severly depressed patients

Question 35

repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Answer 35

repeated pulses of magnetic energy to brain

Question 36

psychosurgery

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removes/destroys brain tissue to change behavior

Question 37

lobotomy

Answer 37

cut nerves connecting frontal lobes to emotion centers in brain

Question 38

Sigmund Freud

Answer 38

psychoanalysis, long-term treatment focus

Question 39

Carl Rogers

Answer 39

client-centered therapy, unconditional positive regard

Question 40

Mary Cover Jones

Answer 40

exposure therapy, reduce phobias in children

Question 41

Joseph Wolpe

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systematic desentization

Question 42

BF Skinner

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behavior therapy, eliminate responses determined by the way reinforces are given

Question 43

Albert Ellis

Answer 43

cognitive behavioral therapy, REBT, adjusting thinking for emotional/behavioral problems, challenging irrational beliefs and assumptions - depression is worsened by irrational beliefs

Question 44

Aaron Beck

Answer 44

cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy for depression, correcting cognitive distortions -Aaron Beck helped people see how their depression was worsened by errors in thinking such as catastrophizing, (interpreting current events as signs of the worst possible outcome).

Question 45

Interpersonal therapy

Answer 45

further extension of psychoanalysis, The focus is less on the past, and more on current feelings and relationships including the interaction with the therapist.

Question 46

self-help groups

Answer 46

led by group members instead of therapist

Question 47

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

Answer 47

In EMDR therapy, the therapist attempts to unlock and reprocess previous frozen traumatic memories. The therapist waves a finger or light in front of the eyes of the client, in order to integrate past and present, and left and right hemispheres.

Question 48

light exposure therapy

Answer 48

Research supports the idea that daily exposure to bright light, especially with a blue tint, is effective in treating the depressive symptoms of seasonal affective disorder [SAD].

Question 49

microsurgery

Answer 49

might work by disrupting problematic neural networks involved with aggression or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Question 50

medication treatment for bipolar disorder

Answer 50

lithium

Question 51

medication treatment for depression

Answer 51

prozac

Question 52

antianxiety medication

Answer 52

xanax

Question 53

schizophrenia medication

Answer 53

thorazine