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| Approach to psychotherapy that uses a variety of therapeutic techniques depending on the client's problems |
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| Treatment involving psychological techniques |
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| In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
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| In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight |
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| In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships |
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| Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight |
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| Variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses |
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| Humanistic therapy in which the therapist actively listens to facilitate client growth |
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| Empathic listening, in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies |
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| Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
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| Behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli |
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| Involves counterconditioning; uses systematic desensitization to treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| Type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasurable state with gradually increasing anxiety-causing stimuli |
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| Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy |
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| Exposes people to simulations of their fears |
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| Type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior |
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| In operant conditioning, rewarding good behaviors with tokens that people can exchange for a treat or privilege |
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| Therapy that teaches people new ways of thinking; based on assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions |
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| Cognitive Behavior Therapy |
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| Popular integrative therapy that combines behavioral with cognitive therapies |
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| Treats the family as a system; views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members |
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| Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies |
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| Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences |
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| Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the nervous system |
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| Study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior |
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| Used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder |
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| Involuntary movements of facial muscles; possible neurotoxic effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target dopamine receptors |
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| Used to control anxiety and agitation |
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| Used to treat depression and anxiety; alter availability of various neurotransmitters |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| For severely depressed people, a brief electrical current is sent through the brain of an anesthesized patient |
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| Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) |
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| Applying repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain |
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| Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
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| Now-rare pyschosurgical procedure that once calmed violent patients by cutting nerves connecting frontal lobes to emotion-controlling brain centers |
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