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Chapter 14
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/02/2008

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Resistance
Definition
reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconscious material
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Transference
Definition
event occurs in psychanalysis when the therapist begins to assume a major significance in the client's life and the client reacts to the therapist based on unconscious childhood fantasies
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Exposure therapy
Definition
approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response
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Systematic desensitization
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procedure in which a client relaxes all the muscles on his or her body while imagining wbeing in increasingly frightening situations
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Cognitive restructuring
Definition
therapeutic approach that teaches clients to question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic beliefs
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Mindfulness meditation
Definition
form of cognitive therapy that teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment; to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings and sensations; and to detech symptoms before they become a problem
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy
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blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies
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Person-centered therapy
Definition
approach to therpay that assumes all individuals have a tendency toward growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genine reactions from the therapist
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Psychopharmacology
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study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms
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Placebo
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inert substance of procedure that has been applied with the exception that a healing response will be produced
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