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Chapter 13 Treatment of Disorders
Term | Definition |
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Active listening | emphathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates & clarifies |
Active listening is a component of | Carl Rogers' client centered therapy |
Antipsychotic Drugs | used to treat schizophrenia & other forms of sever though disorder |
Aversive Conditioning | a type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior. (ex. nausea with alcohol) |
Behavior therapy | applies general learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
Biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system |
Client-centered therapy was created by | Carl Rogers |
Client-centered therapy was a | humanistic therapy |
Client-centered therapy | therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. |
client-centered therapy was also called | person-centered therapy |
cognitive therapy | teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking & acting based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events & our emotional reactions |
Cognitive-behavioral therapy | integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
behavior therapy changes | behavior |
cognitive therapy changes | self-defeating thinking |
Counter-conditioning is a | behavior therapy procedure |
counterconditioning | uses classical conditioning to evoke mew responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors |
counter-conditioning includes | exposure therapies & aversive conditioning |
Eclectic Approach | approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy depending on client's problems |
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a | biomedical therapy |
(ECT) is used on | depressed paitiens |
ECT | a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |
Evidence-based practice | clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise & patient characteristics & preferences |
Anti-anxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety & agitation |
Exposure therapy is a | behavioral technique like systematic desensitization |
Anti-depressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression; also prescribed for anxiety. |
Different types of anti-depressant drugs work by | altering the availability of various neurotransmitters. |
Exposure therapies | treat anxieties by exposing people by imagination or in actuality to the things they fear & avoid |
Family therapy | treats family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at other family members |
Insight therapies aim to | improve psychological functioning by increasing client's awareness of underlying motives & defenses |
Insight therapies are | variety of therapies |
Lobotomy | procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the brain |
Lobotomy was performed to | calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. (Now a rare psychosurgical procedure) |
Meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies. |
Psychoanalysis | Freud' theory of personality & therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts & actions to unconscious motives & conflicts |
Freud believed that patient's free associations, resistances, dreams & transference & the interpetations of them | released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight |
Psychodynamic Therapy deriving from | psychoanalytic tradition |
Psychodynamic Therapy | views individuals as responding to unconscious forces & childhood experiences & seeks to enhance self insight |
Psychopharmacology | study of the effects of drugs on mind & behavior |
Psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
Psychotherapy | interactions between a trained therapist & someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth |
Regression towards the mean | the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average |
fall back | regress |
resilience | personal strength that helps most people cope with stress & recover from adversity & even trauma |
rTMS stands for | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation |
rTMS | application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain |
rTMS used to | stimulate or suppress brain activity |
Systematic desensitization | exposure therapy- associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. |
Systematic desensitization is commonly used to treat | phobias |
Tardive Dyskinesia | involuntary movement of the facial muscles, tongue & limbs |
Tardive Dyskinesia may be a | neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of anti-psychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors |
Token economy | operant conditioning procedure- people earn a token of some sort fro exhibiting a desired behavior & can later exchange the toke for various privileges of treats |
transference | psychoanalysis- patient's transfer to the analysis emotions linked with other relationships. (ex. love/hatred for a parent) |
Unconditional positive regard was introduced by | Carl Rogers |
unconditional positive regard | caring, accepting, non-judgemental attitude- believed to help clients develop self-awareness & self-acceptance |
Virtual reality exposure therapy is a | anxiety treatment |
Virtual reality exposure therapy | progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears (ex. airplane fly, spiders, public speaking.) |