Ch. 15

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The treatment of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage understanding of problems and modify troubling feelings, behaviors, or relationships

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Psychotherapy

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The use of medications, electroconvulsive therapy, or other medical treatments to treat the symptoms associated with psychological disorders

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Biomedical therapies

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A type of psychotherapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free Association dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts

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Psychoanalysis

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It’s technique used in psychoanalysis in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings, and mental images as a come to mind, as a way of revealing unconscious thoughts and emotions

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Free association

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Is psychoanalysis, the patients unconscious at tips to block the revelation of repressed memories and conflicts

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Resistance

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It technique used in psychoanalysis in which the content of dreams is analyzed for disguised or symbolic wishes, meanings, and motivations

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Dream interpretation

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A technique used in psychoanalysis in which the psycho analyst offers a carefully time explanation of the patients dreams, free association, or behaviors to facilitate the recognition of unconscious conflicts or motivations

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Interpretation

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Is psycho analysis, the process by which emotions and desires originally associated with a significant person in the patient’s life such as a parent or unconsciously transferred onto the psychoanalyst

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Transference

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Type of psychotherapy that is based on psycho analytic theory but differs in that it is typically time-limited, have a specific goals, and involves an active, rather than neutral, role for the therapist

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Short-term dynamic therapies

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A brief, psychodynamic psychotherapy he that focuses on current relationships and is based on the assumption that symptoms are caused and maintained by interpersonal problems

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Interpersonal therapy or IPT

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A type of psychotherapy developed by humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers in which the therapist is nondirective and reflective, and the client direct the focus of each therapy session; also called person centered therapy

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Client centered therapy

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A type of psychotherapy that focuses on directly changing maladaptive behavior patterns by using basic learning principles and techniques; also called behavior modification

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Behavior therapy

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A behavior therapy technique based on classical conditioning that involves modifying behavior by conditioning a new response that is incompatible with a previously learned response

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Counterconditioning

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A type of behavior therapy and which phobic responses are reduced by pairing relaxation with a series of mental images or realize situations that the person finds progressively more fear provoking; based on the principle of counterconditioning

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Systematic desensitization

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A relatively ineffective type of behavior therapy that involves repeatedly pairing and versus stimulus with the occurrence of undesirable behaviors or thoughts

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Aversive conditioning

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A form of behavior therapy in which the therapeutic environment is structured to reward desired behaviors with tokens are points and may eventually be exchanged for tangible rewards

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Token economy

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A group of psychotherapies based on the assumption that psycho logical problems are due to illogical patterns of thinking; treatment techniques focus on recognizing and altering these unhealthy thinking patterns

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Cognitive therapies

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A type of cognitive therapy, developed by psychologist Albert Ellis, that focuses on changing the clients irrational beliefs

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Rational emotive therapy or RET

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Therapy developed by Aaron T Beck that focuses on changing the clients unrealistic and maladaptive beliefs

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Cognitive therapy or CT

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Therapy that integrates cognitive and behavioral techniques and that is based on the assumption that thoughts, moods, and behaviors are interrelated

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Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT

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A form of psychotherapy that involves one or more therapist working simultaneously with a small group of clients

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Group therapy

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A form of psychotherapy that is based on the assumption that the family is a system and that treats the family as a unit

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Family therapy

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The pragmatic and integrated use of techniques from different psychotherapies

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Eclecticism

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Therapy technique in which the client holds a vivid mental image of a troubling event or situation while rapidly moving his or her eyes back-and-forth in response to the therapists waiting finger or while the therapist administers some other form of bilateral stimulation

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Eye movement desensitization reprocessing or EMDR

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Behavioral therapy for phobias, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or related to anxiety disorders in which the person is repeatedly exposed to the disturbing object or situation under control conditions

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Exposure therapy

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Drugs that alter mental functions, alleviate psychological symptoms, and are used to treat psychological or mental disorders

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Psychotropic medications

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Prescription drugs that are used to reduce psychotic symptoms; frequently used in the treatment of schizophrenia; also called neuroleptics

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Antipsychotic medications

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Newer antipsychotic medications that, in contrast to the earlier antipsychotic drugs, block the opening receptors in brain regions associated with psychotic symptoms rather than more globally throughout the brain, resulting in fewer side effects

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Atypical antipsychotic medications

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Prescription drugs are used to alleviate symptoms of anxiety

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Anti-anxiety medication

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Naturally occurring substance that is used in the treatment of bipolar disorder

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Lithium

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Prescription drugs that are used to reduce the symptoms associated with major depressive disorder

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Antidepressant medication

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Class of antidepressant medications that increase availability of serotonin in the brain and cause fewer side effects than earlier antidepressants; they include Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

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Bio medical therapy used primarily in the treatment of major depressive disorder that involves electrically inducing a brief brain seizure; also called electroshock therapy

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Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT