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Psychotherapy

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treatment invloving 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 therapy

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prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology

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Eclectic approach

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an approach to psychotherapy that depending on the client's 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 transference- and the analyst's interpretations of them- released previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self insight

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Resistance

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in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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transference

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in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

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psychodynamic therapy

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therapeutic approach derived from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and seeks to enhance self insight

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Insight therapies

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therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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client center therapy

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a humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to promote clients' growth. Also called person centered therapy

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active listening

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empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client centered therapy

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unconditional positive regard

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a caring, accepting, non judgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believes help clients develop self awareness and self acceptance.

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behavior therapy

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therapeutic approach that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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counterconditioning

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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 aversive therapies

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exposure therapies

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behvaior techniques such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people ( in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid.

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systematic desensitization

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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed states with gradually increasing, anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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a counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety by creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders or public speaking

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aversive conditioning

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a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol)

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token economy

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a operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior an can later exchange the tokens for privileges of treats

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cognitive therapy

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therapeutic approach that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

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cognitive behavioral therapy

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a popular integrative therapy that combines a cognitive therapy (changing 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, providing benefits from group interaction

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family therapy

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therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influences by or directed at, other family members

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evidence based practice

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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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antipsychotic drugs

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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of serves thought disorders.

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anitanxiety 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, OCD, and PTSD

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electroconvulsive therapy

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a biomedical therapy fro severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

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the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy tot he brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

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psychosurgery

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surgery that removes on destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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lobotomy

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a psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connective the front lobes tot he emotion controlling center of the inner brain

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resilience

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the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma.

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A therapist who helps patients search for unconscious roots of their problems and offer interpretations of their behaviors, feelings, and dreams is drawing from

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psychoanalysis

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(Blank) therapies are designed to help individuals discover the thoughts and feelings that guide their motivation and behavior

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Insight

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Compared with psychoanalysis, humanistic therapies are more like to emphasize

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Self fulfillment and growth

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A therapist who restates and clarifies the client's statements is practicing

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active listening

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The of behavior therapy is to

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eliminate unwanted behavior

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Behavior therapies often use (blank) techniques such as systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning to encourage clients to produce new responses to old stimuli

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counterconditioning

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The technique of (blank) teaches people to relax in the presence of progressively more anxiety provoking stimuli

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systematic desensitization

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At a treatment center, people who display a desired behavior receive coins that they can later exchange for other rewards. This is an example of

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token economy

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Cognitive therapy has been especially effective in treating

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depression

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Blank) therapy helps people the change their self defeating ways of thinking and to act out those changes in their daily behavior

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cognitive therapy

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In family therapy, the family therapist assumes that

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each person's actions trigger reactions from other family members

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The most enthusiastic or optimistic view of the effectiveness of psychotherapy comes from

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reports of clinicians and clients

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Studies show that (blank) therapy is the most effective treatment for most psychological disorders

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no one type of

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What are the three comparisons of evidence based practice?

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research evidence, clinical expertise, and knowledge of the patient

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How does the placebo effect bias patients' attitudes about the effectiveness of drug therapies

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The placebo effect is the healing power of belief in a treatment. When a patient expect a treatment to be effective they may believe it was

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Some antipsychotic drugs, used t calm people with schizophrenia, can have unpleasant side effects, most notably

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sluggish, tremors, and twitches

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Drugs such as Xanax and Ativan, which depress central nervous system activity, can become addictive when used as ongoing treatment. These drugs are referred to as (blank) drugs

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antianxiety

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A simple salt that often brings relief to patients suffering the highs and low of bipolar disorder is

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lithium

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When drug therapies have not been effective, electroconvulsive therapy may be used as treatment largely for people with

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severe depression

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An approach that seeks to identify and alleviate conditions that put people at high risk for developing psychological disorders is called

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preventative mental health

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