Chapter 14

Question 1

evidence-based practice

Answer 1

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

Question 2

psychotherapy

Answer 2

treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

Question 3

Biomedical Theory

Answer 3

prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology

Question 4

psychoanalysis

Answer 4

(1) Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. (2) Freud’s therapeutic technique used in treating psychological disorders. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and the analyst’s interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

Question 5

resistance

Answer 5

in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

Question 6

interpretation

Answer 6

in psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting of supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight