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

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Eclectic approach

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Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.

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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 motive and defenses

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Insight therapies

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A Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine excepting empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth

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Client centered therapy

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Empathetic 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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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 applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Behavior therapy

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Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

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Counterconditioning

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Behavioral techniques such as a systematic desensitization and virtual-reality exposure therapy that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

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Exposure therapies

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A type of exposure therapy the 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 tickets for various privileges of 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 in 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 (CBT)

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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 individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members

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Family therapy

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The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average

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Regression towards the mean

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

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Meta-analysis

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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 the therapist and client who work together constructively to overcome the clients problems

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Therapeutic alliance

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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

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Psychopharmacology

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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe disorders

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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Anti-anxiety drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression and Zaidi disorders excessive compulsive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder

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Antidepressant drugs

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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent to 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

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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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 psychsurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably and I should know about patients the procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobe to the emotion control centers of the brain

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Lobotomy

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Developed psychoanalysis; this therapy aid to bring patients’ repressed or disowned feelings into conscious awareness

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Sigmund Freud

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Develop the widely used humanistic technique he called client Centered therapy which focuses on the person’s conscious self perception

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Carl Rogers

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Developed counterconditioning; pairs of stimulus with the new response that is incompatible with fear

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Mary cover Jones

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Refined Jones’s technique into what are now the most widely used types of behavior therapies: exposure therapies and systematic desensitize Asian

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Joseph Wolpe

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Helped us understand the basic concept in operant conditioning that voluntary behaviors are strongly encouraged by the consequences

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BF Skinner

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A cognitive therapist who believes that changing people’s thinking can change their functioning

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Aaron Beck

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The creator of rational emotive behavior therapy; believes that many problems arise from irrational thinking

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Albert Ellis