Chapter 17

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Biomedical therapy

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

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Psychotherapy

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Emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties

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Eclectic approach

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Approach to psychotherapy that depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Psychoanalysis

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Freuds therapeutic technique looking at the unconscious

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Sigmund freud

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Developed psychoanalysis, assumed that many psychological problems are fueled by childhood residue impulses and conflicts

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Free association

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Psychoanalysis, method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Resistance

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Psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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Interpretation

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Analyst using dreams meanings resistances and other significant behaviors to understand an individual’s behaviors

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Transference

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Psychoanalysis, the patients transfers to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (love/hate for a parent

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Client-centered therapy

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Humanistic theory, Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting empathic environment to facilitate clients growth

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Carl Rogers

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Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualizing tendencies

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Active listening

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Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies

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Behavior therapy

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Counterconditioning

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A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors, based on classical conditioning

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Exposure therapy

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Behavioral , that treat anxieties by exposing people to the thing they fear/avoid

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Systematic desensitization

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Type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasure relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli, commonly used to treat phobias

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears (spiders)

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Aversive conditioning

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Type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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Token economy

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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

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Cognitive therapies

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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting

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Cognitive-behavior therapy

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A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

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Family therapy

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treats the family as a system. Therapy guides family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.

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Regression toward the mean

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Tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average

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Meta-analysis

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Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Placebo effect

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Experiment results caused by expectations alone

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue and limbs

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Electro convulsive therapy (ECT)

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Biomedical therapy for severally depressed patients in which a bread electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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

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Psychosurgery

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue I’m effort to change behavior

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Lobotomy

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

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Group therapy

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offers people with problems similar to their own for feedback, you are not alone, others share your problems

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EMDR

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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

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Light exposure therapy

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Lights used to diminish depressed moods and symptoms

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Antianxiety drugs

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Calms people down from a state of anxiety , depress the central nervous system

Xanax
Ativan

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SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)

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A type of antidepressant/antianxiety drug, these drugs slow and block the synaptic reuptake of serotonin

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Lithium

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Salt that can be an effective mood stabilizer for those suffering from bipolar

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Double blind study

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1/2 the patients receive the drug, the other half receives placebo, neither the administrators nor the patient know which group received which treatment

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Antidepressant drugs

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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

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Antipsychotic drug

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Used to calm psychotic patients, helps patients experience positive symptoms, lessening responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli

Thorazine