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Chapter 16 Flashcards

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What is psychotherapy ?

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A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives

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What are paraprofessionals ?

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People with no professional training who provide mental health services

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What is insight therapies ?

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A form of psychotherapy where the goal is to expand awareness or insight

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What is Psychodynamic Therapy ?

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Analyze avoided thoughts and feelings, wishes, fantasies, and significant past events

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What is Psychoanalysis ?

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Tries to bring to awareness previously repressed impulses, conflicts, and memories and has a goal in decreasing guilt and frusturation

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What is Free Association ?

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Technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort

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What is resistance ?

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Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions, and impulses

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What is Transference ?

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Projecting intense, unrealistic feelings

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What is Neo-Fredian Tradition ?

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It is more concerned with conscious aspects of the clients functioning

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What is interpersonal therapy ?

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Treatment that strengthens social skills and targets

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What is Humanistic Psychotherapy ?

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Emphasizes development of human potential and belief that human nature is basically postitive

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What is Person-Centred Therapy ?

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Centers on the clients goals and ways of solving problems

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What is Gestalt Therapy ?

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Aim to integrate differing and sometimes opposing aspects of our personality into a unified sense of self

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What are Group Therapies ?

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Refers to therapies that treat more than one person at a time

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How are strategic family interventions designed ?

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Designed to remove barriers to effective communication

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What is structural family therapy ?

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Has the therapist immerse themselves in the family to make changes

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What are behavioural therapists ?

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Therapists that focus on specific problem behaviours and the variables that maintain them

18
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What is ecological mementary assessment ?

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Assessment of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that arise in the moment in situations in which they occur in everyday life

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What is systematic desensitization ?

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Gradually exposes clients to anxiety-producing situations through the use of imagined scenes

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What is dismantling ?

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Research procedure for examining the effectiveness of isolated components of larger treatment

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What is flooding ?

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Repeated exposure to feared stimuli for long periods in a safe enviroment

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What is response prevention ?

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Patient cannot use normal anxiety-reducing behaviours during the exposure period

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What is participant modeling ?

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Model a calm encounter with the client’s feared object or situation

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What is token economies ?

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Reward clients for desirable behaviours with tokens to exchange for items

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What is aversion therapies ?

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Treatment that uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviours

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What are cognitive-behavioural therapies ?

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Treatments that attempt to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adaptive, rational cognitions

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What is meta-analysis ?

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Statistical method that helps researchers interpret large bodies of psychological literature

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What is Psychopharmacotherapy ?

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Use of medication. Essentially pills

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What are Biomedical Treatments ?

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Attempt to directly alter the brain’s chemistry or physiology to treat psychological disorders

30
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What is electroconclusive therapy ?

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Involves patients receiving brief electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure

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What is psychosurgey ?

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Brain surgery to treat psychological disorders

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