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McCrary Unit 7

Treatment for abnormal psych, AP psychology 18-19

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psychotherapy treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psych difficulties or achieve personal goals
biomedical therapy prescribed medications/procedures that act directly on the person's psychology
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 that the patient's free associations , resistance, dreams, and transferences-and the therapist's interpretations of them-released repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight
resistance an psychoanalysis, the blocking of consciousness of anxiety-laden material
interpretation an analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and significant behaviors/events to promote insight
transference in psychoanalysis, a patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships(love/hatred for a parent)
psychodynamic therapy therapy deriving from from the psychodynamic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight
humanistic therapies attempts to reduce growth-inhibiting inner conflicts by providing clients with self insight
insight therapies a variety of therapies that aim to improve psych functioning by increasing awareness to underlying motives and activities
client centered therapy a humanistic therapy; developed by Carl Rodgers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate a client's growth
active listening empathetic listening in which a listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. feature of client centered therapy
unconditional positive regard a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self acceptance
behavior therapy therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
counterconditioning behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning
exposure therapies behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and VR exposure therapies, that treat anxieties by exposing people(in imagination/actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid
systematic desensitization a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias
virtual reality exposure therapy an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulation of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
aversive conditioning a type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state(nausea, etc.) with an unwanted behavior(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 the tokens for various privileges or treats
cognitive therapy therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumptions that thoughts intervene between events/our emotional responses
rational-emotive behavior therapy a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
cognitive behavioral therapy a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy(changing self-defeating thoughts) with behavior(changing behavior)
group therapy therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from groups interactions
family therapy therapy that treats the family as a system. views the individual's unwanted behavior as influenced by other family behaviors
regression towards the mean the tendency for extreme scores to fall back towards their average
meta-analysis a procedure for statistical combining the results of many different research studies
evidence based procedure clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical experience and preferences
therapeutic alliance a ban of trust/mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who works together and constructively to overcome the client's problem
resilience the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress/recover from adversity and even trauma
psychopharmacology the study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior
antipsychotic drugs drugs used to treat schizophrenia/other forms of severe thought disorder
anti anxiety drugs drugs used to treat anxiety and depression
antidepressant drugs drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and post traumatic stress disorders(several widely used antidepressant drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI)
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
repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
psychosurgery surgery that removes/destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
lobotomy a psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. the procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
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