AP Psychology Unit 13 – Treatment of Abnormal Behavior – Flashcards

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psychotherapy
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treatment involving psychological techniques;consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
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biomedical approach
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prescribes medications or procedures that act directly on the person's psychology
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eclectic approach
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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
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psychoanalysis
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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed that the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapists interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patent to gain self insight
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resistance
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in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety- late materials
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interpretation
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in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events to promote insight
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transference
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in psychoanalysis, the patent's transfer to the analysts of emotions linked with other relationships (such a love or hatred for a parent)
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psychodynamic therapy
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therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences
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interpersonal psychotherapy
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a variation of psychodynamic therapy that has virtually treated depression, symptom relief "here and now"
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Carl Rogers
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he developed client-centered therapy; encouraged therapists to exhibit acceptance, genuineness, and empathy
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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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client-centered therapy
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a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine, accepting, environment to facilitate clients growth
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active listening
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empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Roger's client centered therapy
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unconditional positive reward
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a caring, accepting, non judgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance
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behavior therapy
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therapy that applies leaning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
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counter conditoining
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behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and adverse cxonditoining
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Mary Cover Jones
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developed the technique of counterconditioning
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Joseph Wolpe
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developed the technique of systematic desensitization
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Albert Ellis
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psychologist who founded the cogntive psychotherapy called rational-emotive therapy (RET), which emphasizes recognizing and changing irrational beliefs
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exposure therapies
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behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things that they fear and avoid
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systematic desensitization
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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias
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progressive relaxation
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relaxing one muscle group after another, until you achieve a blissful state of complete relaxation and comfort
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virtual reality exposure therapy
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an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulation of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
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aversive conditioning
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a type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
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behavior modification
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reinforcing desired behaviors, and withholding reinforcement for undesired behaviors
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token economy
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an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior can can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
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cognitive therapies
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therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions; used primarily for treating depression
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REBT (rational-emotive behavior therapy)
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a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
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Aaron Beck
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he was a cognitive therapist that believed that changing people's thinking can change their functioning, though he has a more gentle approach than Albert Ellis
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stress inoculation training
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teaching people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations
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CBT (cognitive behavior therapy)
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a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (challenging self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
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group therapy
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therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction
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family therapy
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therapy that treats the family as a system. Views individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
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meta-analysis
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a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
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regression toward the mean
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the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) to the mean
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evidence based practice
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clinical decision making that integrates th best available research with clinical expertise and patent characteristic and preferences
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EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
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having people imagine traumatic scents and using a finger to trigger eye movements
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light-exposure therapy
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a way to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) by periods of exposure to artificial light
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therapeutic alliance
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a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who works consecutively to overcome a clients problems
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resilience
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the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversary and even trauma
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psychopharmacology
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the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
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psychoses
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disorders in which hallucinations or delusions indicate some loss of contact with reality
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antipsychotic drugs
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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
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antianxiety drugs
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drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
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antidepressant drugs
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drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and post traumatic stress disorder (several widely used antidepressant drugs are selective serotonin repute inhibitors - SSRI's)
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neurogenesis
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the birth of new brain cells
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tardive dyskinesia
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a difficult-to-treat and often incurable form of dyskinesia, a disorder resulting in involuntary, repetitive body movements
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ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)
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a biomedical therapy fior severely depressed patents in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patent
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rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation)
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the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or supposes brain activity
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psychosurgery
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surgery that removes or distress brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
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lobotomy
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a psychological procedure once used to calm uncontrollably violent or emotional patterns. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes and the emotion-controlling centers of the brain
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