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Module 54 + 56
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Psychotherapy | an interactive experience with a trained professional, working on understanding and changing behavior, thinking, relationships, and emotions. |
| Biomedical therapy | the use of medications and other procedures (electric/magnetic impulses + surgery) acting directly on the body to reduce the symptoms of mental disorders. |
| Psychodynamic Therapy | unconscious meanings and motivations behind problematic behaviors, feelings and thoughts; weekly; looks at past and present; looks at recurring themes + patterns and makes interpretations; focus on childhood experiences |
| Interpersonal Psychotherapy | focuses on interpersonal problems and building interpersonal relationships; link mode to recent event; "communication analysis" => teach social skills and instill hope |
| Humanistic Therapies | emphasizes the human potential for growth, self-actualization, and personal fulfillment and helps people gain self-awareness and self-acceptance |
| Cognitive Therapy | Identify and challenge negative thoughts, in order to teach skills. |
| Behavioral Therapy | unwanted behavioral responses through classical conditioning, aversive conditioning, operant conditioning in order to teach skills |
| token economy | uses coins, stars, or other indirect rewards as "tokens" that can be collected and traded later for real rewards. |
| Psychopharmacology | study on drug effects on behavior, mood, and the mind (most common) |
| Antipsychotic | reduces symptoms of schizophrenia, especially positive symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions; blocks dopamine receptors; leads to obesity, diabetes and movement problems |
| Antianxiety | temporarily reduces worried thoughts and physical agitation; may permanently erase traumatic associations; reduces nervous system activity in body + mind; leads to slowed thinking, reduced learning, dependence + withdrawal |
| Antidepressant | improves mood and control over depressing and anxious thoughts; increases levels of serotonin (sometimes norepinephrine) at synapses by inhibition uptake; leads to dry mouth, constipation, and reduced sexual desire/response |
| inhibition uptake | stops sending the neuron from taking back its chemical messages |
| Electrocompulsive Therapy | induces mild seizure that disrupts severe depression for some people (neural rewiring, but can lead to memory loss) |
| Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | deep-brain stimulation: using implanted electrodes; disrupts depressive electrochemical patterns. |
| lobotomy | destroys connections btw frontal lobes and rest of the brain. Decreases depression, but disrupts initiative, judgement and cognition. |
| microsurgery | disrupt problematic neural networks involved with aggression or OCD. |
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