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AP Psychology Flash Cards Unit 13
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Psychology
11th Grade
04/01/2013

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What approach uses techniques from various forms of therapy depending on the client's problems
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The Eclectic Approach
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A treatment that consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
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Psychotherapy
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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique
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Psychoanalysis
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The technique that believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
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Psycoanalysis
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The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
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Resistance
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Interpretation
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The analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances , and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
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Transference
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The patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
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Psychodynamic therapy
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Therapy driving from the psychoanalytic traditions that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood esperiences
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Interpersonal psychotherapy
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A variation of psychodynamic therapy; effective in defeating depression
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Humanistic therapies
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Focus on present more than future, immediate responsibility, and conscious over unconscious
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Client-centered therapy
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Carl Rogers; focused on person's conscious self-perceptions, and therapists refrain from directing client to certain insights
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Active listening
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Carl Rogers; "hearing"; echoing, restating, seeking clarification of an expression
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Unconditional positive regard
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Nonjudgmental, graceful acceptance and understanding of the client
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Paraphrase
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Check understanding by summarizing the speaker's words in your own words
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Clarification Invitation
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The encouragement of the speaker to say more about the expression and ask for an example
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Reflect feelings
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The mirroring of what you sense from the speaker's body language
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Behavior therapy
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Doubt healing power of self awareness
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Counter conditioning
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Pairing of a trigger stimulus with a new response
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Exposure therapies
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Expose people to what they normally would avoid/fear
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Systematic desensitization
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By means of exposure therapies; repeated, gradual exposure to eliminate undesired reaction
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Progressive relaxation
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Relax one muscle group after another, until drowsy state of complete relaxation and comfort
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Virtual reality exposure therapy
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A therapy that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their fears through realistically perceived simulations
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Aversive conditioning
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Substituting a negative response for a positive response to a harmful stimulus
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Behavior modification
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Reinforce behavior with no punishment or reward to undesired behaviors
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Cognitive behavioral therapy
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A therapy that alters the way people think and act by questioning maladaptive behaviors and persuading better behaviors
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Family therapy
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A type of group interaction; no person is alone, problems are dealt with as a family
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Therapy crisis
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Normal flow of events, crisis passes, and people attribute improvement to therapy
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Meta-analysis
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Results of many studies combined by a statistical procedure
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Client's perceptions
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Enter therapy in crisis, expect improvement, believe therapy was worth effort
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Clinician's perceptions
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Testify to therapy success, regardless of treatment procedure and length
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