Treatment of disorders

Question 1

Psychotherapy

Answer 1

Patient tries to gain insight into their problem. therapist uses techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome difficulties

Question 2

biomedical therapy

Answer 2

offers medication or other biological treatments

Question 3

eclectic approach

Answer 3

an approach to psychotherapy that uses both the psychotherapy and biomedical therapy techniques

Question 4

psychoanalysis

Answer 4

Sigmund Freud’s believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams and transferences released previously repressed feelings

Question 5

resistance

Answer 5

the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

Question 6

transference

Answer 6

the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hate for parent)

Question 7

psychodynamic therapy

Answer 7

focus on relationships. (including childhood experiences) more laid back, patients go 1-2 days a week. usually only need to go for a couple weeks

Question 8

client-centered therapy

Answer 8

patient can often figure out what is going on on their own. Their therapist usually guides them in the right direction but never gives them a firm answer of what they need to do

Question 9

behavior therapy

Answer 9

behaviors are the problem and not a specific symptomm

Question 10

counterconditioning

Answer 10

classically condition someone unlearn the fear that they have

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exposure therapy

Answer 11

tries to get people to face their fear

Question 12

systematic desensitization

Answer 12

a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias (lady with the elevators)

Question 13

virtual reality exposure therapy

Answer 13

an anxiety treatment that makes you wear head gear and exposes what you are afraid of in 3-D

Question 14

aversive conditioning

Answer 14

a type of counterconditioning that exposes an unwanted state with something you are trying to get rid of.. (Alcohol gives you nausea)

Question 15

token economy

Answer 15

the school that JennerJohn was telling us about. You can get a coin for everything good that you do and exchange it for something good

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cognitive therapy

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teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking.

Question 17

rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

Answer 17

Cognitive therapy, In your face, arrogant. Very to the point

Question 18

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)

Answer 18

change pessimistic ideas. These people are very self critical.

Question 19

therapeutic alliance

Answer 19

a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client who work together

Question 20

psychopharmacology

Answer 20

the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

Question 21

antipsychotic drugs

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

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antianxiety drugs

Answer 22

drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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antidepressant drugs

Answer 23

drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, ocd, and posttraumatic stress disorder

Question 24

electroconvulsive therapy

Answer 24

a biomedical therapy for sevely dpressed patients in which a brief electronic current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Question 25

psychosurgery

Answer 25

surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

Question 26

lobotomy

Answer 26

a psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollable emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of inner brain