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| Therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological proessional. |
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| Therapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings. |
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| Therapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior activity. |
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| An insight therapy based on the theory of Freud, emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts. |
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| Nondirective; Reflection; Unconditional positive regard; Emapthy; Authenticiy |
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| form of directive insight therapy in which the therapist helps clients to accept all parts of their feelings and subjective experineces, using leading questions, and planned experiences such as role-playing |
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| direct, empty chair technique, focuses on the denied past, looking for the whole picture |
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| Action therapies based on the principles of classical and operant conditioning and aimed at changing disordered behavior without concern for the original causes of such behavior. |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| behavior technique used to treat phobias, in which a client is asked to make a list of ordered fears and taught to relax while concentrating on those fears. |
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| Form of behavioral therapy in which an undeseriable behavior is paried with an aversive stimulus to reduce the requency of behavior. |
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| Technique for treating phobias and other stress disorders in which the person is rapidly and intensely exposed to the fear-provoking situation or object and prevented from making the usual avoidance or escape response |
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| The strengthening of a response by following it with a pleasurable conesquence or the removal of an unpleasant stimulus. |
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| A formal, written agreement between the therapist and client in which goals for behavioral change, reinforcements, and penalities are clearly stated. |
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| the removal of a reinforcer to reduce the frequency of a behavior. |
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Advantages: good with treating specific problems
Disadvantages: wouldn't work for more serious psychological disorders |
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| Advantages and disavanteges to behavior therapies |
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| Therapy in which the focus is on helping clients recognize distortions in their thinking and replace distorted unrealistic beliefs with more realistic, helpful thoughts. |
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| Goal of cognitive therapy |
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| Help clients test, in a more objective, scientific way, the trught of their beliefs and assumptions, as well as their attributions concering both their own behavior and the behavior of others in their lives. |
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| Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) |
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| REBT; Cognitive-behavioral therapy in which clients are directly challenged in their irrational beliefs and helped to restructure their thinking into more rational belief statements. |
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| Type of therapy where a group of clients with similar problems gather together and have discussions. |
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| therapy style that results from combining elements of several different therapy techniques. |
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| In a percentage, how successful is psychotherapy? |
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| The realtionship between therapist and client that develops as a warm, carying, accepting relationship characterized by empathy, mutual respect, and understanding. |
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| a syndrome causing the person to make repetitive, involuntary jerks and movements of the face, lips, legs, and body |
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| Drugs used to treat and calm anxiety reactions, typically minor tranquilizers. |
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| Drugs used to treat depression and anxiety |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy |
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| form of biomedical therapy to treat severe depression in which electrodes are placed on either one or both sides of a person's head and an electric current is passed through the electrodes that is strong enough to cause a seizure or convulsion. |
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