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Psychological assessment

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An evaluation of the patients psychological and mental health

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Psychotherapy

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Professional treatment for psychological disorder through techniques designed to encourage communication of conflicts and insight

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Psychodynamic Therapy

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Psychological treatment based on Freudian theories in which the therapist helps the patient explore the unconscious dynamics of personality

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Free association

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The therapist listens while the client talks about whatever comes to mind, without any censorship or filtering

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Dream Analysis

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To analyze the symbolism of the dreams in an effort to probe the uncoisous thoughts of the client and interpret its significance

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Insight

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An understanding of the unconscious causes of the disorder

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Transference

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Patient unconsciously redirects feelings experienced in an important personal relationship toward the therapist

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Humanistic Therapy

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Psychological treatment based on the personality theories of Carl Rogers. Focuses on self realizations

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Client centered therapy

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an approach to treatment in which the client is helped to grow and develop as the therapist provides a comfortable, nonjudgmental environment.

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Therapeutic Alliance

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Relationship between the client and therapist in genuine. No barriers

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

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Structured Approach to treatment that attempts to reduce psychological disorders throughout systematic procedures based on cognitive and behavioural principles

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Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

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Psychological treatment that is based on learning

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Exposure Therapy

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behaviour therapy that is based on classical conditioning principle of extinction. In which people are confronted with a feared stimulus with the goal of decreasing their emotional responses to it

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Flooding

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A client is exposed to the source of his fear all at once

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Systematic Desensitization

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behavioural treatment that combines imagining or experiencing the feared object or situation with relaxation exercises

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Counterconditioning

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second incompatible response (relaxation; e.g., through deep breathing) is conditioned to an already conditioned response (the fear response).

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Virtual reality CBT

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the therapist uses computer-generated, three-dimensional, lifelike images of the feared stimulus in a systematic desensitization program.

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Aversion Therapy

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Type of behaviour therapy in which positive punishment is used to reduce the frequency of an undesirable behaviour

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Cognitive therapy

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a psychological treatment that helps clients identify incorrect or distorted beliefs that are contributing to disorder.

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Eclectic Therapy

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an approach to treatment in which the therapist uses whichever techniques seem most useful and relevant for a given patient.

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Biomedical Therapies

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Treatments designed to reduce psychological disorder by influencing the action of the CNS

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Antidepressant Medications

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Drugs designed to improve moods

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Monamine oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)

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medications work by increasing the amount of serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine at the synapses

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Selective seatonin reuptake Inhibitors

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designed to selectively block the reuptake of serotonin at the synapse, thereby leaving more serotonin available in the CNS.

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs to treat schizophrenia

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tardive dyskinesia

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causes uncontrollable muscle movements, usually in the mouth area

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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medical procedure designed to alleviate psychological disorder in which electric currents are passed through the brain, deliberately triggering a brief seizure

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Antianxiety Medications

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Drugs that help relieve fear or anxiety

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

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Medical procedure designed to reduce psychological disorder that uses magnetic coil to electrically stimulate the brain

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Psychosurgery

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in the hope of improving disorder

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Group therapy

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Psychotherapy in which clients receive psychological treatment together with others

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Couples Therapy

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Treatment in which two people are cohabitating, married or dating meet together with the practitioner to discuss their concerns and issues about their relationship

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Family Therapy

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Family meeting together with a therapist

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Self help group

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a voluntary association of people who share a common desire to overcome psychological disorder or improve their well-being. Example: Addiction facilities

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Community Mental Health services

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Psychological treatments and interventions that are distributes at the community level

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Primary Prevention

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all members of the community receive the treatment.

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risk factors

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Social, environmental and economic vulnerabilities that make it more likely than average that a given individual will develop a disorder

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Teritary Prevention

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Treatment such as psychotherapy or biomedical therapy that focusses on people who are already diagnosed with disorder

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Outcome research

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studies that assess the effectiveness of medical treatments,

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Natural improvement

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Possibility that people might get better over time, even without treatment

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Nonspecific treatment effects

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patient gets better over time simply by coming to therapy, even though it doesn’t matter what actually happens at the therapy sessions.

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Placebo effect

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improvements that occur as a result of the expectation that one will get better rather than from the actual effects of a treatment.

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