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AP Psych Ch.17 Vocab

Therapy - AP Psychology, Chapter 17

TermDefinition
Psychotherapy An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties (used for learned disorders, like phobias)
Biomedical therapy Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system (used for biologically rooted disorders, like schizophrenia)
Eclectic approach An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previously-repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain insight
Resistance In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
Interpretation In psychoanalysis, the analyst's thoughts on supposed dream meanings, resistances, etc. meant to promote insight
Transference In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred of a parent)
Psychodynamic therapy Influenced by Freud, but attempts to understand a patient's current systems by looking at all relationships rather than just childhood experiences
Client-centered therapy A humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rodgers in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening in a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate a client's growth
Behavior therapy Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
Counterconditioning A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors, based on classical conditioning, includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning
Exposure therapies Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid
Systematic desensitization A type of counterconditioning/exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually-increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli, used to treat phobias
Virtual reality exposure therapy An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Aversive conditioning A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
Token economy An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for some kind of privileges/treats
Cognitive therapies Therapy 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-behavior therapy A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
Family therapy Therapy that treats the family as a system, views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by the family, and attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication
Psychopharmacology The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Tardive dyskinesia Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs - a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
Meta-analysis A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
Repetitive transcranial stimulation The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
Psychosurgery Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
Lobotomy A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients - involves cutting the nerves connecting the frontal lobe to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
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