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WINTER Chapter 15: Therapies Flashcards

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What is any psychological technique used to facilitate positive changes in a person’s personality, behaviour, or adjustment?

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Psychotherapy

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What is the Freudian approach to psychotherapy emphasizing exploration of the unconscious using free association, dream interpretation, resistances, and transference to uncover unconscious conflicts?

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Psychoanalysis

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What is the psychoanalytic technique of encouraging a patient to say whatever comes to mind without censoring?

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Free association

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What is blockage in the flow of free association around topics the client avoids thinking or talking about?

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Resistance

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What is the tendency of patients to transfer to a therapist feelings that correspond to those the patient had for important persons in his or her past?

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Transference

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What is any therapy that stresses the importance of understanding the origins of a psychological disorder, usually unresolved unconscious conflicts?

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Insight therapy

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What is any therapy that stresses directly changing troublesome thoughts and/or behaviors without regard for their origins, unconscious or otherwise?

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Action therapy

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What is any therapy that stresses the need for the therapist to lead the patient toward a resolution of his or her psychological distress?

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Directive therapy

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What is any therapy in which the therapist supports the client while the client gains insight into his or her own problems and their resolution?

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Nondirective therapy

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What is psychological treatment involving several unrelated clients?

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Group therapy

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What is a therapy in which clients act out personal conflicts and feelings in the presence of others who play supporting roles?

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Psychodrama

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What is taking the role of another person to learn how one’s own behavior appears from the other person’s perspective?

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Role reversal

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What is observing another person reenact one’s own behavior, like a character in a play; designed to help persons see themselves more clearly?

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Mirror technique

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What is treatment of a group of related individuals that focuses on interpersonal dynamics and communication?

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Family therapy

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What is a caring relationship that unites a therapist and a client in working to solve the client’s problems?

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Therapeutic alliance

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What is a therapist who has the awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to treat clients from diverse cultural backgrounds?

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Culturally skilled therapist

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What is the improvement of symptoms due to the mere passage of time?

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Spontaneous remission

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What is the an improvement caused not by the actual process of therapy but by a client’s expectation that therapy will help?

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Therapy placebo effect

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What is any therapy designed to actively change behaviour?

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Behaviour therapy

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What is the application of learning principles to change human behavior, especially maladaptive behavior?

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Behaviour modification (applied behaviour analysis)

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What is treatment to reduce unwanted behavior by pairing it with an unpleasant stimulus?

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Aversion therapy

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What is alleviating fears and phobias (conditioned emotional responses) by using classical conditioning extinction?

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Exposure therapy

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What is a form of exposure therapy in which clients are exposed to the object of their fears beginning with examples that provoke the most extreme responses?

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Flooding

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What is a reduction in fear, anxiety, or aversion brought about by planned exposure to aversive stimuli?

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Systematic desensitization

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What is the presence of one emotional state can inhibit the occurrence of another, such as joy preventing fear or anxiety inhibiting pleasure?

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Reciprocal inhibition

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What is a procedure for systematically achieving deep relaxation of the body?

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Tension-release method

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What is a list of fears, arranged from least fearful to most fearful, for use in systematic desensitization?

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Fear hierarchy

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What is the use of computer-generated images to present fear stimuli while responding to a viewer’s head movements and other input?

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Virtual reality exposure

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What is a form of exposure therapy in which clients observe models displaying adaptive behavior toward their feared object?

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Modeling

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What is behavior modification in which desired behaviors earn objects that can be exchanged for positive reinforcers?

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Token economy

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What is the treatment of emotional and behavioral problems by changing maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and feeling?

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Cognitive therapy

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What is perceiving only certain stimuli among a larger array of possibilities?

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Selective perception

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What is blowing a single event out of proportion by extending it to a large number of unrelated situations?

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Overgeneralization

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What is classifying objects or events as absolutely right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, and so forth?

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All-or-nothing thinking

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What is any therapy that combines elements of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy?

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Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)

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What is the type of treatment designed to identify and change self-defeating thoughts?

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Rational-emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)

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What is the use of aversive stimuli to interrupt or prevent upsetting thoughts?

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Thought stopping

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What is insight-oriented therapies that help clients better understand themselves with the goal of maximizing their potential?

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Humanistic therapies

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What is it when an individual being treated talks without direction, judgment, or interpretation from the therapist?

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Client-centered (person-centered) therapy

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What is having complete, unqualified acceptance of another person as he or she is?

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Unconditional positive regard

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What is a capacity for taking another’s point of view; the ability to feel what another is feeling?

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Empathy

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What is, in Carl Rogers’s terms, the ability of a therapist to be genuine and honest about his or her own feelings?

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Authenticity

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What is, in client-centered therapy, the process of rephrasing or repeating thoughts and feelings expressed by clients so that they can become aware of what they are saying?

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Reflection

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What is an insight therapy that focuses on the elemental problems of existence, such as death, meaning, choice, and responsibility; emphasizes making courageous life choices?

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Existential therapy

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What is an approach that focuses on immediate experience and awareness to help clients rebuild thinking, feeling, and acting into connected wholes; emphasizes the integration of fragmented experiences?

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Gestalt therapy

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What is the use of drugs to treat psychopathology?

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Pharmacotherapy

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What are medications that may alleviate hallucinations and delusional thinking associated with mental disorders?

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Antipsychotic drugs (major tranquilizers)

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What are medications that produce relaxation or reduce anxiety?

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Antianxiety drugs (anxiolytics or minor tranquilizers)

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What are medications that combat depression by affecting the levels or activity of neurotransmitters?

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Antidepressant drugs

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What are medications that combat bipolar disorder by leveling mood swings?

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Mood stabilizers

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What are medications used to calm attention deficit hyperactivity disorder even though they arouse the nervous system?

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Stimulants (as drugs to treat ADHD)

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What is treatment for severe depression in which electrical current is applied to the brain, causing a seizure?

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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What is electrical stimulation of precisely targeted brain regions? It is a surgical procedure is necessary to implant electrodes in the brain that allow for the stimulation.

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Deep brain stimulation (DBS)

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What is a device that uses magnetic pulses to temporarily block activity in specific parts of the brain?

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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What is any surgical alteration of the brain designed to bring about desirable behavioral or emotional changes?

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Psychosurgery

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What is placing a person in a protected, therapeutic environment staffed by mental health professionals?

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Psychiatric hospitalization

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What is the reduced use of full-time commitment to mental institutions to treat mental disorders?

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Deinstitutionalization

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What is a community-based facility for individuals making the transition from an institution (mental hospital, prison, and so forth) to independent living?

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Halfway house

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What is a facility offering a wide range of mental health services, such as prevention, counseling, consultation, and crisis intervention?

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Community mental health center

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What is the skilled management of a psychological emergency?

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Crisis intervention

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What is an individual who works in a near-professional capacity under the supervision of a more highly trained person?

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Paraprofessional

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What is any bodily therapy, such as drug therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, or psychosurgery?

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Somatic therapy

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What is a nonprofessional person who has learned basic counseling skills?

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Peer counselor

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What is a group of people who share a particular type of problem and provide mutual support to one another?

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Self-help group

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