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Ch. 17, Therapy
AP Psych, Chapter 17 Therapy
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| psychotherapy | an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties |
| eclectric approach | an approach to psychoterapy 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 self-insight |
| resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
| interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight |
| transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analysts of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) |
| client-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listeening within a geninue, accepting, empathic growh |
| active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. |
| 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; based on classical conditioning. |
| exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid |
| systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias. |
| 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 that rewards desired behavior. A patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhihbiting the desired behavior, for various privileges or treats. |
| cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thougths intervene between events and our emotional reactions |
| cognitive-behavior therapy | a popular intergrated 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 individuals's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide famiy members toward postitive relationships and improved communications. |
| regression toward the mean | the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall (regress) toward their average |
| meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies |
| psychopharmacology | the study of effects of drugs on mind and behavior |
| lithium | a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of biplar (manic-depressive) disorders |
| 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 |
| 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. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the eemotion-controlling centers of the inner brain |
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