Treatment Of Psychological Disorders Flashcards
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Electric approach
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychotherapy
Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapists interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight
Psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material
Resistance
In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
Interpretation
In psychoanalysis the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships( such as love or hatred for a parent)
Transference
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight
Psychodynamic therapy
A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses
Insight therapies
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
Client-centered therapy
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers client-centered therapy
Active listening
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance
Unconditional positive regard
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Behavior therapy
A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
Counterconditioning
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Exposure therapies
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias
Systematic desensitization
And anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Virtual-reality exposure therapy
A type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
Aversive conditioning
An 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 our emotional reactions
Cognitive therapy
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system
Family therapy
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average
Regression toward the mean
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Meta-analysis
Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
Evidence-based practice
Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system
Biomedical therapy
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Psychopharmacology
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
Antipsychotic drugs
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and lambs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs at target certain dopamine receptors
Tardive dyskinesia
Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
Anti-anxiety drugs
Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters
Antidepressant drugs
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent to the brain of an anesthetized patient
Electroconclusive therapy (ECT)
The 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
A now rare psycho surgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobe’s to the motion controlling centers of the inner brain
Lobotomy
The personal strengths that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
Resilience
