Ch.13: Therapy

Question 1

Any of a group of therapies used to treat psychological disorders and to improve psychological functioning and adjustment to life

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psychotherapy

Question 2

A type of psychodynamic therapy developed by FREUD, an intensive and prolonged technique for bringing unconscious conflicts into conscious awareness

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Psychanalysis

Question 3

In psychoanalysis, reporting whatever comes to mind without monitoring its contents

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Free Association

Question 4

In psychoanalysis, interpretation of the underlying true meaning of dreams to reveal unconscious process

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Dream Analysis

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Inability or unwillingness of a patient to discuss or reveal certain memories, thought, motives or experience

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Resistance

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The process by which a client attaches to a therapist feelings formerly held toward some significant person who figured in a past emotional conflict

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Transeference

Question 7

A psychoanalyst’s explanation of a patient’s free associations, and transference, more generally, any statement by a therapist that presents a patient’s problem in a new way

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Interpretation

Question 8

A type of therapy, that focuses on conscious processes and current problems; a briefer more directive and more modern form of psychoanalysis

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Psychodynamic therapy

Question 9

A type of therapy that emphasizes mazimizing a client;s inherent capacity for self-actualization by providing a non-judgmental, accepting atmosphere

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Humanistic therapy

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Roger’s humanistic approach to therapy, which emphasizes the client’s natural tendency to become healthy and productive using such techniques

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Client-centered therapy

Question 11

The four techniques used in Client-centered therapy are

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empathy
Unconditional positive regard
Genuineness
Active listening

Question 12

An insightful awareness and ability to share another’s inner experience

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empathy

Question 13

Complete love and acceptance of another, such as a parent for a child with no conditions attached

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Unconditional positive regard

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Authenticity or congruence; the awareness of one’s true inner thoughts and feelings and being able to share them honestly with others

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Genuineness

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Listening with total attention to what another is saying, includes reflecting, paraphrasing, and clarifying what the person says and means

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Active Listening

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A type of therapy that treats problem behaviors and mental processes by focusing on faulty thought processes and beliefs

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Cognitive therapy

Question 17

A process in cognitive therapy that is designed to change destructive thoughts or inappropriate interpretations

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Cognitive Restructing

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Ellis’s cognitive therapy that focuses on eliminating irrational emotional reactions through logic, confrontations, and examination of irrational belief

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Rational-emotional behavior therapy

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A type of therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavioral therapy

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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

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A group of techniques based on learning principles to change maladaptive behaviors

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Behavior therapy

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A behavioral therapy technique in which a client learns to prevent the arousal of anxiety by gradually confronting the feared stimulus while relaxed

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Systematic desensitization

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A type of behavioral therapy characterized by the pairing of an unpleasant stimulus with a maladaptive behavior in order to elicit a negative reaction to the target stimulus

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Aversion therapy

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A type of therapy characterized by watching and imitating models that demonstrate desirable behaviors

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Modeling therapy

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A treatment for psychological disorders that alters brain functioning with biological or physical interventions (psychosurgery)

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biomedical therapy

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The study of the effect of drugs on behavior and mental processes

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Psychopharmacology

Question 26

The four major categories of psycho therapeutic are

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anti- anxiety drug
antipsychotic drug
mood stabilizer drug
antidepressent drug

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A biomedical therapy based on passing electrical current through the brain it is used almost exclusively to treat serious depression when drug therapy fails

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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A neurosurgical alteration of the brain to bring about desirable behavioral, cognitive, or emotional changes, generally used when patients have not responded to other forms of treatment

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psychosurgery

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Surgery involves cutting nerve pathways between the frontal lobes and the thalamus and hypothalamus

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Lobotomy

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A biomedical treatment that uses repeated magnetic field pulses targeted as specific areas of the brain

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

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A perspective on therapy that combines techniques from various theories to find the mot appropriate treatment

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Eclectic Approach

Question 32

A form of therapy in which a number of people meet together to work toward therapeutic goals

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Group therap

Question 33

A leaderless or nonprofessionally guided group in which members assist each other with a specific problem, as in alcoholics anonymous

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Self-help group