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Psychological and Biological Treatments
Chapter 12
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/19/2015

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Behavior Modification
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The traditional term for the use of empirically demonstrated behavior change techniques to increase or decrease the frequency of behaviors
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Behavior Therapy
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Focuses on specific problem behaviors and current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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Benzodiazepine
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Medication used to increase efficiency of GABA binding to receptor sites and for alcohol detox
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Bibliotherapy
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An expressive therapy that involves the reading of specific texts with the purpose of healing
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Person-centered Therapy
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Therapy centering on the client's goals and ways of solving problems
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Cognitive Therapy
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A type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck. CT is one of the therapeutic approaches within the larger group of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) and was first expounded by Beck in the 1960s
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Dream Anaylsis
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The process of assigning meaning to dreams
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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Treatment for serious psychological problems in which patients receive brief electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure
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Family Therapy
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A type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) that helps family members improve communication and resolve conflicts
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Free Association
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Technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort
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Group Therapy
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Therapy that treats more than one person at a time
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Individual Therapy
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A process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained therapist—in a safe, caring, and confidential environment—to explore their feelings, beliefs, or behaviors
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Insight-Oriented Therapy
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Psychootherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight
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Psychoanalysis
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A system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association
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Psychodynamic Therapy
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An approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience
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Resistance
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Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions, and impulses
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Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)
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Medication that is used for eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and socail phobias
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Self-help Group
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Are groups of people who provide mutual support for each other
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Systematic Desensitization
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A treatment for phobias in which the patient is exposed to progressively more anxiety-provoking stimuli and taught relaxation techniques
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Token Economy
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Method in which desirable behaviors are rewarded with tokens that clients can exchange for tangible rewards
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Transference
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Act of projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist
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