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Chapter 13
Term | Definition |
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Action Therapy | The main goal is to change the disordered or inappropriate behavior directly. |
Antianxiety Drugs | Drugs used to treat and calm anxiety reactions, typically minor tranquilizers. |
Antidepressant Drugs | Drugs used to treat depression and anxiety. |
Antipsychotic Drugs | Drugs used to treat psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and other bizarre behavior. |
Arbitrary Inference | Distortion of thinking in which a person draws a conclusion that is not based on any evidence. |
Aversion Therapy | Form of behavioral therapy in which an undesirable behavior is paired with an aversive stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior. |
Behavior Therapy | Action therapies based on the principles of classical and operant conditioning and aimed at changing disordered behavior without concern for the original cause of such behavior. |
Cognitive Therapy | The focus is on helping clients recognize distortions in their thinking and replace distorted, unrealistic beliefs with more realistic, helpful thoughts. |
Cognitive-behavioral Therapy | The goal is to help clients overcome problems by learning to think more rationally and logically. |
Eclectic | Approach to therapy that results from combining elements of several different approaches or techniques. |
Empathy | The ability of the therapist to understand the feelings of the client. |
Exposure Therpies | Behavioral techniques that expose individuals to anxiety- or fear-related stimuli, under carefully controlled conditions, to promote new learning. |
Flooding | Technique for treating phobias and other stress disorders in which the person is rapidly and intensely exposed to the fear-provoking situation or object and prevented from making the usual avoidance or escape response. |
Gestalt Therapy | Form of directive insight therapy in which the therapist helps clients to accept all parts of their feelings and subjective experiences, using leading questions and planned experiences such as role-playing. |
Insight Therapies | The main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings. |
Interpersonal Therapy | Form of therapy for depression which incorporates multiple approaches and focuses on interpersonal problems. |
Personalization | Distortion of thinking in which a person takes responsibility or blame for events that are unconnected to the person. |
Person-centered Therpy | A nondirective insight therapy based on the work of Carl Rogers in which the client does all the talking and the therapist listens. |
Psychoanalysis | An insight therapy based on the theory of Freud, emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts. |
Psychodynamic Therapy | A newer and more general term for therapies based on psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on transference, shorter treatment times, and a more direct therapeutic approach. |
Psychotherapy | Therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional. |
Rational-emotive Behavior Therapy | Cognitive-behavioral therapy in which clients are directly challenged in their irrational beliefs and helped to restructure their thinking into more rational belief statements. |
Resistance | Occurring when a patient becomes reluctant to talk about a certain topic, by either changing the subject or becoming silent. |
Self-help Groups (support groups) | A group composed of people who have similar problems and who meet together without a therapist or counselor for the purpose of discussion, problem solving, and social and emotional support. |
Transference | In psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto their therapist. |