Chapter 17 Flashcards
Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system
Psychotherapy
Emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Eclectic approach
Approach to psychotherapy that depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis
Freuds therapeutic technique looking at the unconscious
Sigmund freud
Developed psychoanalysis, assumed that many psychological problems are fueled by childhood residue impulses and conflicts
Free association
Psychoanalysis, method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
Resistance
Psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Interpretation
Analyst using dreams meanings resistances and other significant behaviors to understand an individual’s behaviors
Transference
Psychoanalysis, the patients transfers to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (love/hate for a parent
Client-centered therapy
Humanistic theory, Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting empathic environment to facilitate clients growth
Carl Rogers
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies
Active listening
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies
Behavior therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Counterconditioning
A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors, based on classical conditioning
Exposure therapy
Behavioral , that treat anxieties by exposing people to the thing they fear/avoid
Systematic desensitization
Type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasure relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli, commonly used to treat phobias
Virtual reality exposure therapy
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears (spiders)
Aversive conditioning
Type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Token economy
Operant conditioning procedure in which people earn token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can be later exchange the tokens for various privileges/treats
Cognitive therapies
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
Cognitive-behavior therapy
A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
Family therapy
treats the family as a system. Therapy guides family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.
Regression toward the mean
Tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
Meta-analysis
Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Placebo effect
Experiment results caused by expectations alone
Tardive dyskinesia
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue and limbs
Electro convulsive therapy (ECT)
Biomedical therapy for severally depressed patients in which a bread electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
Application of repeated pulses of of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
Psychosurgery
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue I’m effort to change behavior
Lobotomy
Now rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients
Group therapy
offers people with problems similar to their own for feedback, you are not alone, others share your problems
EMDR
While people are imagining traumatic scenes, one triggers eye movements by waving a finger in front of their eyes, enabling them to unlock and reprocess previous trauma memories
Light exposure therapy
Lights used to diminish depressed moods and symptoms
Antianxiety drugs
Calms people down from a state of anxiety , depress the central nervous system
Xanax
Ativan
SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
A type of antidepressant/antianxiety drug, these drugs slow and block the synaptic reuptake of serotonin
Lithium
Salt that can be an effective mood stabilizer for those suffering from bipolar
Double blind study
1/2 the patients receive the drug, the other half receives placebo, neither the administrators nor the patient know which group received which treatment
Antidepressant drugs
These drugs lift people from a state of depression, increased the availability of norepinephrine or serotonin, these neurotransmitters elevate arousal and mood, they are scarce during depression
Prozac
Antipsychotic drug
Used to calm psychotic patients, helps patients experience positive symptoms, lessening responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli
Thorazine
