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Chapter 13
Treatment of psychological disorders
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2010

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Psychodynamic therapy
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Therapy that seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses
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Psychoanalysis
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Freudian psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior.
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Transference
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The transfer of feelings to a psychoanalyst of love or anger that had been originally directed to a patient's parent or other authority figures.
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Behavioral treatment approaches
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Treatment approaches that build on the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement ad extinction, and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are both learned.
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Aversive conditioning
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A form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with undesired behavior.
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Systematic desensitization
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A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety.
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Exposure
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A behavioral treatment for anxiety in which people are confronted, either suddenly or gradually, with a stimulus that they fear.
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Dialectical behavior therapy
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A form of treatment in which the focus is on getting people to accept who they are, regardless of whether it matches their ideal.
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Cognitive treatment approaches
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Treatment approaches that teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognition about the world and themselves.
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Cognitive-behavioral approach
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A treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think.
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Rational-emotive behavior therapy
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A form of therapy that attempts to restructure a person's belief system into a more realistic, rational, and logical set of views by challenging dysfunctional beliefs that maintain irrational behavior.
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Humanistic therapy
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Therapy in which the underlying rationale is that people have control of their behavior, can make choices about their lives, and are essentially responsible for solving their own problems.
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Person-centered therapy
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Therapy in which the goal is to reach one's potential for self-actualization.
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Interpersonal therapy (IPT)
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Short term therapy that focuses on the context of current social relationship.
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Group therapy
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Therapy in which people meet in a group with a therapist to discuss problems.
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Family therapy
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An approach that focuses on the family and its dynamics.
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Spontaneous remission
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Recovery without treatment
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Drug therapy
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Control of psychological disorders through the use of drugs.
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Antipsychotic drugs
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Drugs that temporarily reduce psychotic symptoms such as agitation, hallucinations, and delusions.
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Antidepressant drugs
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Medications that improve a severely depressed patient's mood and feeling of well-being.
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Antipsychotic drugs
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Mood stabilizers
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Drug used to treat mood disorders that prevent manic episodes of bipolar disorders.
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Antianxiety drugs
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Drugs that reduce the level of anxiety a person experiences, essentially by reducing excitability and increasing feelings of well-being.
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
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A procedure used in the treatment of severe depression in which an electric current of 70 to 150 volts is briefly administered to a patient's head.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
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A depression treatment in which a precise magnetic pulse is directed to a specific area of the brain.
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Psychosurgery
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Brain surgery once used to reduce the symptoms of mental disorder but rarely used today.
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Community psychology
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A branch of psychology that focuses on the prevention and minimization of psychological disorders in the community.
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Deinstitutionalization
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The transfer of former mental patients from institutions to the community.
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