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MrsVanDyke Chapter11
Therapy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Therapy | General term for any treatment process in psychology and psychiatry |
| Psychological Therapies | Therapies based on psychological principles, rather than biomedical, often called "psychotherapy |
| Biomedical Therapies | Treatments that focus on altering the brain, especially with drugs, psychosurgery, 0r electroconvulsive therapy |
| Insight Therapy | Psychotherapies in which the therapist helps patients/clients understand their problems |
| Talk therapy | Focus on communicating and verbalizing emotions and motives to understand their problems |
| Psychoanalysis | Form of psychodynamic therapy developed by Freud; the goal is to release conflicts and memories from the unconscious |
| Analysis of Transference | Freudian technique of analyzing and interpreting the patient's relationship with the therapist, based on the assumption that the relationship mirrors unresolved conflicts in the patient's past |
| Neo-Freudian Psychodynamic Therapies | Therapies for mental disorder that were developed by psychodynamic theorists who embraced some of Freud's ideas but disagreed with others |
| Humanistic Therapies | Treatment techniques based n the assumption that people have a tendency for positive growth and self-actualization, which may be blocked by an unhealthy environment that can include negative self-evaluation and criticism from others |
| Client-Centered Therapy | Humanistic approach to treatment developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizing an individual's tendency for healthy psychological growth through self-actualization |
| Reflection of Feeling | Roger's technique of paraphrasing the client's words, attempting to capture the emotional tone expressed |
| Cognitive Therapy | Emphasizes rational thinking as the key t treating mental disorder |
| Group therapy | Any form of psychotherapy done with more than one client at a time |
| Self-Help Support Groups | Groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, that provide social support and an opportunity for sharing ideas about dealing with common problems |
| Behavior Modification | Another term for behavior therapy |
| Behavior Therapy | Form of therapy based on principles of behavioral learning, especially operant conditioning and classical conditioning |
| Systematic Desensitization | Behavioral therapy technique in which anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patient t an anxiety-provoking stimulus |
| Exposure Therapy | Form of desensitization therapy in which the patient directly confronts the anxiety-provoking stimulus |
| Aversion Therapy | Involves presenting individuals with an attractive stimulus paired with an unpleasant (aversive) stimulation in order t condition revulsion |
| Contingency Management | Operant conditioning approach to changing behavior by altering the consequences, especially rewards and punishments of behavior |
| Participant Modeling | Social leaning technique in which a therapist demonstrates and encourages a client imitates a desired behavior |
| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | A new form of psychotherapy that combines the techniques of cognitive therapy with those of behavior therapy |
| Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | Albert Ellis's brand of cognitive therapy, based on the idea that irrational thoughts and behaviors are the causes of mental disorders |
| Active Listener | Person who gives the speaker feedback in such forms of nodding, paraphrasing, maintaining an expression that shows interest, and asking questions for clarification |
| Psychopharmacology | Prescribed use of drugs to help treat symptoms of mental illness ostensibly to ensure that individuals are more receptive to talk therapies |
| Antipsychotic Drugs | medicines that diminish psychotic symptoms, usually by their effect on the dopamine pathways in the brain |
| Tardive Dyskinesia | An incurable disorder of motor control, especially involving muscles of the face and head, resulting from long-term use of antipsychotic drugs |
| Antidepressant Drugs | Medicines that effect depression, usually by their effect on the serotonin and/or norepinephrine pathways in the brain |
| Lithium Carbonate | Simple chemical compound that is highly effective in dampening the extreme mood swings of bipolar disorder |
| Antianxiety Drugs | Category of drugs that includes the barbiturates and benzodiazepines, drugs that diminish feelings of anxiety |
| Stimulants | Drugs that normally increase activity level by encouraging communication among neurons in the brain |
| Psychosurgery | General term for surgical intervention in the brain to treat psychological disorders |
| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) | Treatment used primarily for depression and involving the application of an electric current to the head, producing a generalized seizure. Sometimes called "shock treatment" |
| Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) | Treatment that involves magnetic stimulation of specific regions of the brain. Unlike ECT and TMS it does not produce a seizure |
| Therapeutic Community | Jones's term for a program of treating mental disorder by making the institutional environment supportive and humane for patients |
| Deinstitutionalization | Policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals |
| Community Mental Health Movement | Effort to deinstitutionalize mental patients and to provide therapy from outpatient clinics. |
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