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| Treatments designed to give clients self-knowledge (insight) into the contents of their thought processes |
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Psychoanalysis
Cognitive
Humanistic |
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| Technique used in psychoanalysis to explore the contents of the unconscious; clients are asked to freely express whatever thoughts and feelings happen to come into their minds |
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| Technique used in psychoanalysis; Freud believed that dreams are symbolic and contain important information about the unconscious |
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| Hidden meaning to dreams that reveals the unconscious |
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| Actual events/symbols of the dream |
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| The patient's expression of thoughts/feelings toward the therapist that are actually representative of the way the patient feels about other significant people in their life |
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| Treatments designed to removed irrational beliefs and negative thoughts that are presumed to be responsible for psychological disorders |
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| Form of cognitive therapy in which the therapist acts as a kind of cross-examiner, verbally assaulting the client's irrational thought processes |
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| Treatments designed to help clients gain insight into their fundamental self-worth and value as human beings |
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Systematic desensitization
Aversion therapy
Token economy
Social skills training |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| Technique that uses counterconditioning and extinction to reduce the fear and anxiety that have become associated w/a specific object/event |
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| Treatment for replacing a positive reaction to a harmful stimulus (smoking) w/something negative (feeling bad after smoking) |
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| Type of behavioral therapy in which patients are rewarded w/small tokens when they act in an appropriate way; they can then be exchanged for certain privileges |
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| Behavior therapy that uses modeling and reinforcement to shape appropriate adjustment skills |
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Blocks/slows the use of dopamine
Chlorpromazine |
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Allow norepinephrine to linger longer
Tricyclics |
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