Psych Disorders Treatment Flashcards

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Biomedical therapy

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Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology

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Eclectic approach

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

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud believed that the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapists interpretation of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight

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Resistance

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The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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Interpretation

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The analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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Transference

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The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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Psychodynamic therapy

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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight

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Insight therapies

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A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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Client-centered therapy

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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl 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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Active listening

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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.

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Unconditional positive regard

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A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance

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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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Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

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Exposure therapies

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Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

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Systematic desensitization

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli

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Virtual reality exposure

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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking

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Aversive conditioning

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A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as alcohol)

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Token economy

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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

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Cognitive therapy

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Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

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Rational emotive behavior

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A confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changes self defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)

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Group therapy

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Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction

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Family therapy

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Treats the family as a system

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Regression toward the mean

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The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average

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Meta-analysis

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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Evidence-based practice

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Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

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Therapeutic alliance

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A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problem

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Resilience

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The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

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Psychopharmacology

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

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Antianxiety drugs

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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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Antidepressant drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder

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Psychotherapy

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Consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

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The application of repeated pulses 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 in an effort to change behavior

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Lobotomy

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A psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients

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Sigmund Freud

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709

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Carl Rogers

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712

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Mary Cover Jones

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717

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Joseph Wolpe

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717

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B.F. Skinner

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719

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Albert Ellis

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721

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Aaron Beck

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721