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Psych Ch17 Therapies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychotherapy | an emotionally charged, confiding interaction btw a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties. |
| eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy thatuses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
| psychoanalysis | Frued's technique. Believed the patent's free asssociations, resistances, drea,s and transferences released previous repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. |
| resistance | the blocking from consciencess of anxiety-laden material. |
| interpretation | the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other singificant behaviors in order to promote insight. |
| transference | the patient's transfer to the analyst of emions linked with other relationships (ex:love or hate for a parent). |
| client-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers. Therapist uses techniques such as a ctive listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. |
| active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |
| counter conditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors. |
| exposure therapies | behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and advoid. |
| systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleassant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. |
| aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant satae with unwanted behavior. |
| token economy | an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior. |
| cognitive therapy | theraoy that teaches people new more adaptive ways of thinking and acting. |
| cognitive-behavior theory | a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy. |
| family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system. views an ind.'s unwanted beahviors as influenced by or directed at others. attempts to guide family members towards positive relationships. |
| regression toward the mean | the tendencey for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average. |
| meta-analysis | a procedure for statistcally combining the results of many different research studies. |
| psychopharmacology | the study of drug-induced changes in mood, sensation, thinking, and behavior. |
| lithium | a chemical that provides am effctive drug therapy for the mood swings of ipolar disorders. |
| elcetroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient. |
| psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroyes brain tissue in an effort to change beahvior. |
| lobotomy | a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or voilent patients. the Procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain. |
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