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Psych - Chapter 16 terms
Psychological and Biological Treatments
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/21/2011

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Psychotherapy
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a psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems, and improve the quality of their lives
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Paraprofessional
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person with no professional training who provides mental health services
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Insight Therapies
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psychotherapies, including psychodynamic and humanistic-existential approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight
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Free Association
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technique in which patients express themselves without censorship of any sort
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Resistance
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Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
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Transference
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Projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist
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Work Through
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to confront and resolve problems, conflicts, and ineffective coping responses in everyday life
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Interpersonal Therapy
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treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions
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Humanistic-Existential Psychotherapy
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therapies that share an emphasis on the development of human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive
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Phenomenological Approach
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perspective in which therapists encounter patients in terms of subjective phenomena (thoughts, feelings) in the present moment
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Person-centred therapy
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therapy centring on the patient's goals and ways of solving problems
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Gestalt Therapy
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therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self
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Experiential therapies
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interventions that recognize the importance of awareness, acceptance, and expression of feelings
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Logotherapy
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therapeutic approach that helps people find meaning in their lives
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Behaviour Therapist
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therapists of focus on specific problem behaviours and on current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
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Systematic Desensitization
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patients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear in a stepwise manner
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Exposure Therapy
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therapy that confronts patients with what they fear with the goal of reducing fear
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Dismantling
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research procedure for examining the effectiveness of isolated components of a larger treatment
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Response Prevention
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technique in which therapists prevent patients from performing their typical avoidance behaviours
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Participant Modelling
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Technique in which the therapist first models and problematic situation and then guides the patient thought the steps to cope with it un
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Participant Modelling
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Technique in which the therapist first models and problematic situation and then guides the patient thought the steps to cope with it unassisted
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Token Economy
Definition
method in which desirable behaviours are rewarded with tokens that patients can exchange for tangible rewards
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Aversion Therapy
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treatment that uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviours
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Cognitive-Behavioural therapy
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treatment that attempts to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adaptive, rational cognitions
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Group Therapy
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Therapy that treats more than one person at a time
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Definition
twelve-step, self helping program that provides social support for achieving sobriety
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Abstinence Violation effect
Definition
lapse in sobriety that can lead to continued drinking if people feel ashamed, guilty, or discouraged, when they lapse
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Strategic family intervention
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family therapy approach designed to remove barriers to effective communication
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Structural Family Therapy
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treatment in which therapists deeply incolve themselves in family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions
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Empirically supported therapies (ESTs)
Definition
treatments for specific disorders supported by high-quality scientific evidence
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Pharmacotherapy
Definition
use of medications to treat psychological problems
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Definition
patients receive brief electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure to treat serious psychological problems
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Psychosurgery
Definition
brain surgery to treat psychological problems
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