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| A trained therapist uses psychological techniques to help someone overcome difficulties or achieve personal growth |
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| What is biomedical therapy? |
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| Offers medication or other biological treatment |
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| What is the eclectic approach? |
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| Using various forms of therapy depending on the patient/situation |
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| Reading into the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences to unlock represses memories |
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| The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
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| The analyst's noting meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight |
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| The patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships |
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| What is psychodynamic therapy? |
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| Derived from psychoanalysis, views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and seeks to enhance self-insight |
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| What are insight therapies? |
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| A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses |
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| What are humanistic therapies like? |
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| They stress helping the client grow rather than "curing" them |
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| What is client-centered therapy? |
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| Focuses on the person's conscious self-perceptions by using active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment |
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| What is active listening? |
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| Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies |
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| What is unconditional positive regard? |
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| A caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude |
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| What is behavior therapy? |
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| Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
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| What is counterconditioning? |
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| Uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors |
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| What are exposure therapies? |
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| Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fea3 |
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| What is systematic desensitization? |
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| Associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli |
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| What is virtual reality exposure therapy? |
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| Progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears |
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| What is aversive conditioning? |
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| Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior |
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| An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges |
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| What are cognitive therapies? |
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| Therapy that teaches new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and emotions |
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| What is rational-emotive behavior therapy? |
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| A confrontational cognitive therapy that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions |
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| What is cognitive-behavioral therapy? |
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| A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
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| Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals |
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| Therapy that treats the family as a system |
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| Statistical procedure that combines conclusions of many different studies |
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| What is the therapeutic alliance? |
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| Bond between therapist and client |
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| What is psychopharmacology? |
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| The study of drug effects on mind and behavior |
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| What are antipsychotic drugs? |
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| Drugs that calm patients with psychoses by dampening responses to irrelevant stimuli |
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| What are antianxiety drugs? |
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| Drugs that depress central nervous system activity |
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| What are antidepressant drugs? |
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| Drugs that increase availability of neurotransmitters that elevate mood and arousal |
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| What is electro-convulsive therapy? |
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| Shock therapy, effective for severe depression |
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| Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue |
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