Chapter 13 Vocab

Question 1

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

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Electric approach

Question 2

Treatment involving psychological techniques; consist of interactions between a train therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

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Psychotherapy

Question 3

Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique.

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Psychoanalysis

Question 4

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety material

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Resistance

Question 5

And psychoanalysis the analyst nothing suppose dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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Interpretation

Question 6

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

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Transference

Question 7

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

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Psychodynamic therapy

Question 8

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

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Insight therapies

Question 9

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

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Client centered therapy

Question 10

Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies

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Active listening

Question 11

A caring, excepting, nonjudgmental attitude, with Carl Rogers believed would help client to develop self-awareness and self acceptance

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Unconditional positive regard

Question 12

Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Behavior therapy

Question 13

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

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Counterconditioning

Question 14

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

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Exposure therapies

Question 15

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

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Systematic desensitization

Question 16

And anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking

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Virtual-reality exposure therapy

Question 17

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

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Aversive conditioning

Question 18

And 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

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Token economy

Question 19

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

Question 20

A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy will behavior therapy

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

Question 21

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

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Family therapy

Question 22

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

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Regression toward the mean

Question 23

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

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Meta-analysis

Question 24

Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

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Evidence-based practice

Question 25

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

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Biomedical therapy

Question 26

The study of the effect of drugs on mind and behavior

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Psychopharmacology

Question 27

Used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe through disorder

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Antipsychotic drugs

Question 28

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

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Tardive dyskinesia

Question 29

Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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Antianxiety drugs

Question 30

Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

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Antidepressant drugs

Question 31

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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Electroconvulsive therapy

Question 32

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

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Question 33

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

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Psychosurgery

Question 34

The personally strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

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Resilience

Question 35

A now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients

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Lobotomy