Treatment Of Psychological Disorders

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An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Electric approach

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Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

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Psychotherapy

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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

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Psychoanalysis

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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material

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Resistance

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

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Interpretation

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In psychoanalysis the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships( such as love or hatred for a parent)

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Transference

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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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Psychodynamic therapy

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A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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Insight therapies

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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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Client-centered therapy

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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers client-centered therapy

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Active listening

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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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Unconditional positive regard

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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Behavior therapy

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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

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Counterconditioning

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

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Exposure therapies

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

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Systematic desensitization

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

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Virtual-reality exposure therapy

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A type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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Aversive conditioning

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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

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Token economy

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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

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Cognitive therapy

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A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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Therapy that treats the family as a system

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Family therapy

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

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Regression toward the mean

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

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Meta-analysis

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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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Evidence-based practice

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Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system

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Biomedical therapy

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The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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Psychopharmacology

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

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Antipsychotic drugs

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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

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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Anti-anxiety drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

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Antidepressant drugs

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

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Electroconclusive therapy (ECT)

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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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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation rTMS

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

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Psychosurgery

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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

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Lobotomy

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

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Resilience