Aaron Jennings Chapter 13 Vocab

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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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Psychotherapy

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Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight

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Psychoanalysis

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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material

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Resistance

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

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Interpretation

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In psychoanalysis, the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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Transference

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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that use individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight

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Psychodynamic therapy

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

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Insight therapies

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A humanistic therapy, derived by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with in genuine, excepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth

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Client centered therapy

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Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. The future of Rogers client centered therapy

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Active listening

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A caring, excepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed it would help clients to develop self-awareness and self acceptance

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Unconditional positive regard

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Behavior therapy

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A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

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Counterconditioning

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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization,that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

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Exposure therapies

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli

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Systematic desensitization

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And anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears

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Virtual-reality exposure therapy

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A type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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Aversive conditioning

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In operant conditioning procedure in which people learn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

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Token economy

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

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Cognitive therapy

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A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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Therapy the treats the family of the system. Use and individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members

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Family therapy

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The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average

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Regression towards the mean

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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Meta-analysis

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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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Evidence-based practice

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Prescribed medications or medical procedures the actor directly on the patients nervous system

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Biomedical therapy

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Psychopharmacology

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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs can target certain dopamine receptors

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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Anti-anxiety drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety.

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Antidepressant drugs

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

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Electroconvulsive therapy ECT

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

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Repetitive trans cranial magnetic stimulation rTMS

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

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Psychosurgery

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A now rare psycho surgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobe’s to the emotion control centers of the inner-brain

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Lobotomy

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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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Resilience

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And approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Eclectic approach