Chapter 17 Flashcards
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on patients nervous system
Biomedical Therapy
Emotionally charged confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
Psychotherapy
Depending on clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Eclectic Approach
Freuds therapeutic technique. Believed free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings
Psychoanalysis
Developed psychoanalysis, first of psychological therapies. Assumed that many psychological problems are fueled by childhoods residue of repressed impulses and conflicts
Sigmund Freud
A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxed and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
Free Association
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Resistance
Analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
Transference
Humanistic therapy, Carl Rogers, use techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment that facilitate clients growth
Client Centered Therapy
Believed that people are basically good and are endowed with self actualizing tendencies
Carl Rogers
Empathetic listening in which the listener echos, restates, and clarifies. A feature of client centered therapy
Active listening
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior Therapy
Behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Exposure therapy and averse conditioning
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization that treats anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure Therapy
Type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias
Systematic Desensitization
Anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
Type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Aversive conditioning
Operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
Token economy
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and are emotional reactions
Cognitive therapies
A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
Cognitive behavior therapy
Suggested for those experiencing family conflict or who’s behavior is distressing to others. The social context allows people to discover that people have similar problems to their own and receive feedback
Group Therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members. Promotes positive relationships and improved communication
Family therapy
Tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average
Regression toward the mean
Procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Meta analysis
While people imagined traumatic events you trigger eye movements by waving a finger in front of their eyes, enabling them to unlock and reprocess previously frozen trauma memories
EMDR
Give people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) a timed daily dose of intense light
Light exposure therapy
The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior
Psychopharmacology
Experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an invert substance or conditio, assumed to be an active agent
Placebo Effect
Both the research participants and the research staff are blind about whether the research participants have received the treatment or placebo
Double blind study
Calms psychotic patients
Antipsychotic Drugs
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors
Tardive Dyskinesia
Depress central nervous system activity. Used with psychological therapy, can help a person learn to cope with frightening situations and fear triggering stimuli
Anti Anxiety drugs
Lift people up from a state of depression increases availability of norepinephrine or serotonin, neurotransmitters that elevate arousal and mood and appear scarce during depression
Antidepressant drugs
Class of compounds typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders
SSRI
Biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anethetized patient
Electroconvulsive Therapt (ECT)
Application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
Psychosurgery
Cutting the nerves connecting the frontal lobes with the emotion controlling centers of the inner brain calms uncontrollably emotional and violent patients
Lobotomy
