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DC Psych Ch14

Therapy

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Psychotherapy Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to address psychological difficulties/achieve personal growth.
Biomedical therapy Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology.
Eclectic approach An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. He believed that the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams and their interpretation released previously repressed feelings, allowing for patient's self-insight.
Resistance In psychoanalysis, the blocking from the consciousness of unpleasant or anxiety-laden material.
Psychodynamic therapy Therapy influenced by psychoanalytic tradition; views clients as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight and wellbeing.
Person-centered therapy Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers. The client directs discussion and the therapist actively listens with an accepting, empathetic, and genuine environment to facilitate clients' growth.
Insight therapies Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
Unconditional positive regard A caring, accepting, and nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Systematic desensitization Exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing, anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Aversive conditioning Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior (ex: nausea associated with drinking alcohol).
Behavior modification Reinforcing desired behaviors and not reinforcing (or even punishing) undesirable behaviors using operant conditioning.
Token economy Operant conditioning procedure where people receive a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) Integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).
Family therapy Therapy that treats people in the context of their family system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by/directed at other family members.
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.
Biomedical therapy Includes drugs, lifestyle changes, brain stimulation, and/or surgery.
Antidepressants (SSRIs) Used to treat depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD and related disorders, and PTSD (Several widely used drugs of this kind are "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors").
Antipsychotics Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders.
Antianxiety Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.
Mood stabilizers Drugs like Depakote and Lithium level and control manic episodes and emotional highs/lows.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) Biomedical therapy for severe depression where a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized person. Treats severe depression.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) Application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. Noninvasive and used for treating depression.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) Uses a pacemaker to activate electrodes implanted in brain areas linked to negative emotions and thoughts. Effective for severe depression, studied for OCD/addictions.
Psychosurgery (lobotomy) Rare, removes/destroys brain tissue; historical use caused severe side effects.
Placebo effect When a person experiences real, beneficial improvements in condition after receiving a nonworking medicine, purely because they believe it will work.
Prevention To look for symptoms of a disorder and consciously treat them before they become severe.
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