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Therapy
Vocabulary covering important terms from Unit 7
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Psychology
12th Grade
12/17/2012

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Eclectic Approach
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Approach to psychotherapy that uses a variety of therapeutic techniques depending on the client's problems
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Psychotherapy
Definition
Treatment involving psychological techniques
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Resistance
Definition
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
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Interpretation
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In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight
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Transference
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In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
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Psychodynamic Therapy
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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight
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Insight Therapies
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Variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses
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Client-centered Therapy
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Humanistic therapy in which the therapist actively listens to facilitate client growth
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Active Listening
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Empathic listening, in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
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Behavior Therapy
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Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
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Counterconditioning
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Behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli
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Exposure Therapies
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Involves counterconditioning; uses systematic desensitization to treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear
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Systematic Desensitization
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Type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasurable state with gradually increasing anxiety-causing stimuli
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Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
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Exposes people to simulations of their fears
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Aversive Conditioning
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Type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
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Token Economy
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In operant conditioning, rewarding good behaviors with tokens that people can exchange for a treat or privilege
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Cognitive Therapy
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Therapy that teaches people new ways of thinking; based on assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Popular integrative therapy that combines behavioral with cognitive therapies
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Family Therapy
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Treats the family as a system; views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members
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Meta-analysis
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Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
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Evidence-based Practice
Definition
Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
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Biomedical Therapy
Definition
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the nervous system
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Psychopharmacology
Definition
Study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
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Antipsychotic Drugs
Definition
Used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
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Tardive Dyskinesia
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Involuntary movements of facial muscles; possible neurotoxic effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target dopamine receptors
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Antianxiety Drugs
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Used to control anxiety and agitation
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Antidepressant Drugs
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Used to treat depression and anxiety; alter availability of various neurotransmitters
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Definition
For severely depressed people, a brief electrical current is sent through the brain of an anesthesized patient
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
Definition
Applying repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain
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Psychosurgery
Definition
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
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Lobotomy
Definition
Now-rare pyschosurgical procedure that once calmed violent patients by cutting nerves connecting frontal lobes to emotion-controlling brain centers
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