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| An interaction between a therapist and someone suffering form a psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief form the problem. |
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| Treatment that draws on techniques form different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem. |
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| Psychodynamic Psychotherapy |
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| A general approach to treatment that explores childhood events and encourages individuals to develop insight into their psychological problems. |
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| A reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconscious material. |
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| An event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client's life and the client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies. |
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| Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) |
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| A form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping clients improve current relationships. |
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| A form of behavior therapy in which clients are given "tokens" for desired behaviors, which they can later trade for rewards. |
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| An approach to the 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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| A procedure in which a client relaxes all the muscles in his or her body while imagining being in increasingly frightening situations. |
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| A type of therapy that assumes that disordered behavior is learned and that symptom relief is achieved through changing over maladaptive behaviors into more constructive behaviors. |
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| A form of behavior therapy that uses positive punishment to reduce the frequency of an undesirable behavior. |
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| A form of psychotherapy that involves helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about self, others, or the world. |
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| A therapeutic approach that teaches clients to question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and positive beliefs. |
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| A 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 detect symptoms before they become a problem. |
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| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
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| A blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies. |
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| An approach to therapy that assumes all individuals have a tendency toward growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist. |
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| An existentialist approach to treatment with the goal of helping the client become aware of his or her thoughts, behaviors, experiences, and feelings and to "own" or take responsibility for them. |
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| Therapy in which multiple participants (who often do not know one another at the outset) work on their individual problems in a group atmosphere. |
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| Medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. |
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| The study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms. |
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| Drugs that help reduce a person's experience of fear and anxiety. |
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| A class of drugs that help lift people's mood. Cheer up buttercup! : ) |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ETC) |
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| A treatment that involves inducing a mild seizure by delivering an electrical shock to the brain. |
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| Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) |
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| A treatment that involves placing a powerful pulsed magnet over a person's scalp, which alters neuronal activity in the brain. |
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| A treatment for seasonal depression that involves repeated exposure to bright light. |
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| Surgical destruction of specific brain areas. |
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| An inert substance or procedure that has been applied with the expectation that a healing response will be produced. |
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| A disorder or symptom that occurs as a result of a medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. |
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