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| reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconscious material |
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| event occurs in psychanalysis when the therapist begins to assume a major significance in the client's life and the client reacts to the therapist based on unconscious childhood fantasies |
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| approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| procedure in which a client relaxes all the muscles on his or her body while imagining wbeing in increasingly frightening situations |
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| therapeutic approach that teaches clients to question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic beliefs |
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| form of cognitive therapy that teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment; to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings and sensations; and to detech symptoms before they become a problem |
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| Cognitive-behavioral therapy |
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| blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies |
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| approach to therpay that assumes all individuals have a tendency toward growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genine reactions from the therapist |
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| study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms |
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| inert substance of procedure that has been applied with the exception that a healing response will be produced |
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