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AP Psych Unit 13
Treatments of Psychologial Disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | eclectic approach |
| treatment involving psychological techniques; consits of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth | psychotherapy |
| Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free association, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings, allowing hte patient to gain self-insight | psychoanalysis |
| in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden materials | resistance |
| in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in ordre to promote insight | interpretation |
| in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions, linked with other relationships | 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 client's 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, empathetic environment to facilitate clients' growth | client-centered therapy |
| empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. | active listening |
| a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance | unconditional positive regard |
| thearpy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | behavior thearpy |
| a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors | counterconditioning |
| behavior 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 pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. | systematic desensitization |
| an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears | virtual reality exposure therapy |
| a type of counterconditioning that associated an unpleasant state(nausea) with and unwanted behavior (drinking alcohol) | aversive conditioning |
| an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a toekn of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privelages or treats | token economy |
| thearpy 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 (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) | cognitive-behavioral therapy |
| therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members | family therapy |
| the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards 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 patient's 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 sever thought disorder | antipsychotic drugs |
| involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors | tardive dyskinesia |
| drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | antianxiety drugs |
| drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety | antidepressant drugs |
| a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient | electroconvulsive 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 pscyhosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain | lobotomy |
| the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma | resilience |
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