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Chapter 13

TermDefinition
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.
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