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- psychotherapy
- biomedical therapy
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| an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties |
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| prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system |
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| an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients' problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy |
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sigmund freud
patients free associations (first thing that comes to mind in therapy) and therapists interpretations of them release repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain self in-sight |
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| the blocking from a consciousness of anxiety - laden material |
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| the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors, and even events in order to promote insight |
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| the patients transfer to the analyst or emotions linked with another relationships (such as a loved one or hatred for a parent) |
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| a humanistic therapy, Carl Rogers, when therapists use techniques such as active listening with an empathetic environment to facilitate clients' growth |
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| empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies |
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| therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
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| a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors |
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| exposing people to things that they fear or avoid |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| when a patient is put in a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety (moving a rabbit closer and closer) - triggering stimuli, (commonly used to treat phobias) |
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| virtual reality and exposure therapy |
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| same as exposure but with stimulations |
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| associates an unwanted state with an unwanted behavior (nausea w/ alcohol, after a while, alcohol will make you nauseous) |
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| when people earn a token for exhibiting designed behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats |
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| therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting |
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| therapy with multiple clients, not as much one on one attention but sense of support, advice, togetherness is existent. |
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| therapies not proven to work (herbal medicine, massage, spiritual healing), people think they help, but not proven |
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| people are given a box of light to counteract the dark, overcast days of winter, meant to relieve wintertime depression |
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| physically changing the brain's functioning by altering its chemistry with drugs |
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| the study of the effects of drugs on mood and behavior |
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- electroconclusive therapy (ECT)
- repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- psychosurgery
- labotomy
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| Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT scan) |
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| a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |
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alternative to ECT
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) |
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| the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to stimulate or suppress brain activity |
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| surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
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| a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain |
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