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What is psychoanalysis?

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Insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives and defenses through free association and transference

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What is client-centered therapy?

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Insight therapy that emphasizing providing a supportive emotional climate for clients who lead where the therapy is going

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What is cognitive therapy?

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Uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders

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What is behavioral therapy?

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Involved the application of learning principles to direct efforts to change clients maladaptive behaviors

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What is biomedical therapy?

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Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders

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What is psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Who seeks therapy?

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15% of people / year

Middle class, educated, insured, females, middle age

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What are people suffering from when they go see therapists?

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Excessive anxiety and depression

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What degree do you need to have in order to be a psychiatrist?

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Medical degree

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What kind of patients do psychiatrists treat?

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Those who need medicine to balance brain chemicals

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What kind of degree does a psychologist need?

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PhD, Psy. D

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What kind of people do psychologists treat?

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Treat every day problems and people with disorders in hospital settings

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What are clinical counseling psychologists?

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Specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems

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What is Sigmund Freud associated with?

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Transference, resistance and psychotherapy

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What is transference?

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Patients transfer to the analyze the emotions linked to other relationships

Redirecting feelings from one person to another

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What is resistance?

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Largely unconscious defense maneuvers intended to hinder the process of therapy

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What are the basic concepts of psychotherapy?

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Dream analysis, free association, and the unconscious

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What is dream analysis?

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The therapist intercepts the symbolic meaning of a clients dream

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What is free association?

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Client spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur , with little censorship as possible

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What is Carl Rogers associated with?

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Genuineness, empathy, unconditional positive regard and in congruence

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What is unconditional positive regard?

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Constantly positive, always sees the good in people

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What is incongruence?

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When the patients ideal and perceived self aren’t the same

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What is tar dice dyskinesia?

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Neurological disorder marked by involuntary writhing and tic like movement of the mouth, tongue, face, hands, or feet

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What is aversion therapy?

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A behavior therapy and what universe stimulus is paired with the stimulus that elicits an undesirable response

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What are antidepressant drugs

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Gradually elevate mood and help bring people out of depression

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What is systematic desensitization

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A behavior therapy used to reduce phobic clients anxiety responses through counterconditioning

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What are antipsychotic drugs

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Gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, including hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations, and delusions

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What is ECT

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Electroconvulsive therapy
Shock therapy

Biomedical treatment in which an electric shock is used to produce a Cordele seizure accompanied by convulsions

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What is spontaneous remission?

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A recovery for him from a disorder that occurs without formal treatment

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What is the behavioral approach with operant conditioning?

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Reward/punishment, behavior modifications, and token economy

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What is classical conditioning in a behavioral approach

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Systematic desensitization with Wolpe

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Who is Wolpe and why is he important?

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Psychologist who introduced classical conditioning with counterconditioning

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What is counterconditioning?

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behavior incompatible with a habitual undesirable pattern is induced.

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What is Thorazine?

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The classical antipsychotic, but it is used for positive symptoms and can cause tardive dyskinesia

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What is clozapine?

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Used to block negative symptoms and blocks receptors for dopamine

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What are some anti-anxiety drugs

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Valium, Xanax, and Librium

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What are some antidepressant drugs?

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Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil

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What is the most widely prescribed psychotic drug?

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Antidepressants

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Cognitive therapy originated in the treatment of which disorder?

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Depression

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Who is Aaron Beck?

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Father of cognitive therapy

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What is Aaron Beck’s View of depression?

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Notice that the press people all have the similar outlook on life

“take off the dark sunglasses”

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Who is responsible for the rational emotive model

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Albert Ellis

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What do you and times I do drugs produce?

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GABA

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What does GABA do to the central nervous system

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Prohibits central nervous system activity

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What does SSRI stand for

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor’s

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What is insight therapy?

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Self understanding and promotes healthful hanged in personality and behavior

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What is another name for anti depressants?

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SSRI’s

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What are Valium, Xanax and Librium considered?

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Tranquilizers

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Why would you get put on SSRI’s if you’re given medicine for the first time for depression?

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Most commonly used, and usually works and least amount of side effects

50
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Which neurotransmitters are linked to depression

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Serotonin and norepherene

51
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What drug would you go to last due to not being able to mix it?

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MAO inhibitors

52
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What is lithium used for?

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Bipolar disorder

53
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What are tricyclics and what do they do

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They increase levels of norephinpherine serotonin and dopamine

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What does MAO stand for

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Monoamine oxidase inhibitors

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What do MAO inhibitors do?

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Inhibit enzyme breakdown

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Who is known for psychoanalytic psychotherapy?

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Freud

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Who is known for humanistic psychotherapy

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Rogers

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Who is known for Cogntive 1: rational emotive therapy?

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Ellis

59
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What is becks approach

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Direct therapy, but slowly

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Who is known for counterconditioning?

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WOLPE

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Who is known for operant conditioning

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Skinner

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