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| Also called biomedical therapies, treatments that reduce or eliminate the symptoms of psychological disorders by altering aspects of body functioning |
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| Commonly known as tranquilzers, drugs that reduce anxiety by making the individual calmer and less excitable |
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| Drugs that regualate mood |
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| The lightest of the solid elements in the periodic table of elements, widely used to treat bipolar disorder |
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| Powerful drugs that disminish agitated behavior, reduce tension, decrease hallucinations, improve social behavior, and produce better sleep patterns in individuals with a severe psychological disorder, especially schizophrenia |
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| Electroconvlusive Therapy |
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| Also called shock therapy, a treatment, commonly used for depression, that sets off a seizure |
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| A procedure for treatment-resistant depression that involves the implantion of electrodes in the breain that emit signals to alter the brain's electrical circuitry |
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| A biological therapy, with irreversible effects, that involves removal or destruction of brain tissue to improve the individuals adjustment |
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| A nonmedical process that helps individuals with psychological disorders recognize and overcome their |
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| Treatments that stress the importance of the unconscious mind, extensive interpretation by the therapist, and the role of early childhood experiences in the development of and indivdual |
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| Freud's therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual's unconscious thoughts |
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| A psychoanalytic technique that involves encouraging individuals to say aloud whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrasing |
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| A psychoanalyst's search for symbolic, hidden meanings in what the client says and does during |
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| A psychoanalyst's search for symbolic, hidden meanings in what the client says and does during therapy |
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| A psychoanalytic technique for interpreting a person's dreams |
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| A client's relating to the psychoanalyst in ways that reproduce or relive importatn relationships in the individual's life |
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| A client's unconscious defense strategies that interfere with the psychoanalyst's understanding of indvidual's problems |
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| Treatments, unique in their emphasis on people's self-healing capacities, that encourage clients to understand themselves and to grow personally |
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| Also called Rogerian therapy or nondirective therapy, a form of humanistic therapy, developed by Rogers, in which the therapist provides a warm, supportive atmosphere to improve the client's self-concept and to encourage the client to gain insight into problems |
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| A technique in which the therapist mirrors the client's own feelings back to the client |
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| Treatments, based on the behavioral and social cognitive theories of learning,that use principles of learning to reduce or elimainate maladaptive behavior |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| A method of behavior therapy that treats anxiety by teaching the client to associate deep relaxation with in creaslingly intense anxiety producing situations |
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| Treatments that point to cognitions as (thoughts) as the main source of psychological problems and that attempt to change the individual's feelings and behaviors by cahgning cognitions |
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| Rational Emotive behavior Therapy |
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| A therapy bsed on Ellis's assertion that individuals develop a psychological disorder because of irreational and self-defeating beliefs and whose goal is to get clients to elimainate these beliefs by rationally examining them |
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| Cognitive Behavior Therapy |
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| A therapy that combines cognitive therapy and behavior therapy with the goal of developing self efficacy |
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| A combination of techniques from different therapies based on the therapist's judgement of which paticular methods will provide the greatest benefit for the client |
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| A sociocultural approach to the treatment of psychological disorders that brings together individuals who share a particular psychological disorder in sessions that are typically led by a mental health professional |
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| The relationship between the therapist and client-an important element of successful psychotherapy |
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| A short term, problem focused, direcitve therapy that encourages clients to accentuate the positive |
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