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| Therapy that seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses |
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| Freudian psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior. |
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| The transfer of feelings to a psychoanalyst of love or anger that had been originally directed to a patient's parent or other authority figures. |
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| Behavioral treatment approaches |
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| Treatment approaches that build on the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement ad extinction, and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are both learned. |
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| A form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with undesired behavior. |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety. |
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| A behavioral treatment for anxiety in which people are confronted, either suddenly or gradually, with a stimulus that they fear. |
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| Dialectical behavior therapy |
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| A form of treatment in which the focus is on getting people to accept who they are, regardless of whether it matches their ideal. |
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| Cognitive treatment approaches |
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| Treatment approaches that teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognition about the world and themselves. |
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| Cognitive-behavioral approach |
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| A treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think. |
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| Rational-emotive behavior therapy |
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| A form of therapy that attempts to restructure a person's belief system into a more realistic, rational, and logical set of views by challenging dysfunctional beliefs that maintain irrational behavior. |
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| Therapy in which the underlying rationale is that people have control of their behavior, can make choices about their lives, and are essentially responsible for solving their own problems. |
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| Therapy in which the goal is to reach one's potential for self-actualization. |
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| Interpersonal therapy (IPT) |
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| Short term therapy that focuses on the context of current social relationship. |
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| Therapy in which people meet in a group with a therapist to discuss problems. |
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| An approach that focuses on the family and its dynamics. |
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| Recovery without treatment |
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| Control of psychological disorders through the use of drugs. |
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| Drugs that temporarily reduce psychotic symptoms such as agitation, hallucinations, and delusions. |
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| Medications that improve a severely depressed patient's mood and feeling of well-being. |
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| Drug used to treat mood disorders that prevent manic episodes of bipolar disorders. |
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| Drugs that reduce the level of anxiety a person experiences, essentially by reducing excitability and increasing feelings of well-being. |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
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| A procedure used in the treatment of severe depression in which an electric current of 70 to 150 volts is briefly administered to a patient's head. |
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| Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) |
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| A depression treatment in which a precise magnetic pulse is directed to a specific area of the brain. |
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| Brain surgery once used to reduce the symptoms of mental disorder but rarely used today. |
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| A branch of psychology that focuses on the prevention and minimization of psychological disorders in the community. |
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| The transfer of former mental patients from institutions to the community. |
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