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Ch. 17 Therapy
Question | Answer |
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an emotionally charged confideing interaction between a trained therapist & someone who suffers form psychological difficulties | psychotherapy |
prescribed medcations or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system | biomedical therapy |
an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | eclectic approach |
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 self insight | psychoanalysis |
in psychoanalysis, the blocking form consciousness of anxiety-laden material | resistance |
in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, & other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight | interpretation |
in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) | transference |
a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the terapist uses techniques such as active listening w/in a genuine accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth | client-centered therapy or person-centered therapy |
empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restate, and clarifies | active listening |
therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | behavior therapy |
a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning; includes exposure therapy & aversive conditioning | counterconditioning |
behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things thay fear and avoid | exposure therapies |
a typeof counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used to treat phobias | systematic desensitization |
an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking | virtual reality exposure therapy |
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state(such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) | aversive conditioning |
an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats | token economy |
a therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene b/w events & our emotional reactions | cognitive therapy |
a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) wiht behavior therapy | cognitive-behavior therapy |
therapy that treats the family as a system; views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships & improved communication | family therapy |
the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | psychopharmacology |
involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, & limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors | tardive dyskinesia |
a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a breif 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 pscychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontollably emotional or violent patients; the procedure cut the nerves that connect the fronta lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain | lobotomy |
the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their avg. | regression toward the mean |
a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies | meta-analysis |