13 Key Terms

Question 1

Eclectic approach

Answer 1

An approach to psychotherapy that depending on client problems
Uses techniques from various forms of therapy

Question 2

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

Question 3

Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud
Believe patients free associations, resistances, dreams, transferences, and the therapists interpretations released previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self insight

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Resistance

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The blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material

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Interpretation

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In psychoanalysis
The analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behavior and events in order to promote insight

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Transference

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In psychoanalysis

The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships like hatred for a parent

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Psychodynamic therapy

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Therapy that views individuals as responding t unconscious forces and childhood experiences and that seeks to enhance self insight

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Insight therapies

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A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness underlying of underlying motives and defenses

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Client centered therapy

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A humanistic therapy by carl rogers
Therapist uses techniques such as active listening with genuine accepting empathetic environment to facilitate the clients
growth

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Active listening

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Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes restates and clarifies
Part of client centered therapy

Question 11

Unconditional positive regard

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A caring accepting nonjudgmental attitude which Carl rogers beloved would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance

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Behavior therapy

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Therapy that applies learning principles that the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Counterconditioning

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A therapy behavior procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behavior

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Exposure therapies

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Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear or 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, used to treat phobias

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations 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 counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with an unwanted behavior (alcohol)

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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 and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

Question 19

Cognitive therapy

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Therapy that teaches people new more adaptive ways of thinking as acting 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 cognitive therapy (changing self defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)

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Family therapy

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Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individuals unwanted behaviors as influences by or directed at other family members

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Regression toward the mean

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The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average

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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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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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Biomedical therapy

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Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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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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Tardive dyskinsia

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Involuntary muscle movements of facial muscles, tongue, and limbs
Possible neurotoxic side effect of long term use for f antipsychotic drugs that target dopamine receptors

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Anti anxiety 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 also increasingly prescribed for anxiety.
Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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

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rTMS

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The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

Question 33

Psychosurgery

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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Lobotomy

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A now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connect the frontal lobes to the emotion controlling centers 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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Examples of anti anxiety

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Xanax and activism

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Anti depressants

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Increase levels of serotonin and norepinephrine

Slow reuputake SSRI

Question 38

Mood stabilizing

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Lithium
For bipolar
Depakote