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Treatment of Abnormal Behaviour

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Psychotherapy   show
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Biomedical Therapy   show
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show An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.  
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show A trained therapist who uses psychological techniques to assist someone to overcome a psychological disorder or mental distress.  
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Psychoanalysis   show
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Free Association   show
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show Refers to the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material during therapy. A patient’s hesitation to free associate is most likely a sign of resistance. Supports and maintains the process of repression.  
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Interpretation   show
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Transference   show
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Criticisms of Psychoanalysis   show
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Psychodynamic Therapy   show
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show A brief variation of psychodynamic therapy that has been effective in treating depression. Primarily focuses on helping people improve their relationship skills.  
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show A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses. Psychoanalytic therapies and humanistic therapies.  
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Humanistic Therapies   show
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show Developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth. Patients’ discover their own ways of effectively dealing with their difficulties.  
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Active Listening   show
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show A caring, accepting nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. Client-centered therapies provide patients with feelings of unconditional acceptance.  
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show Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviours. Old learning led to the development of a problem, new learning can fix it. Action based.  
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Classical Conditioning Therapies   show
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show Behaviour therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviours. Include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.  
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Exposure Therapies   show
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Systematic Desensitization   show
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Progressive Relaxation   show
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show An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking. Effective in the treatment of phobias.  
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Aversive Conditioning   show
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show Patients’ actions are influenced by controlling the consequences of those actions. Reinforces closer approximations of desired behaviours and withholds reinforcements for undesired behaviours.  
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show An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behaviour and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats. Approach has helped children with autism function effectively in school.  
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Criticisms of Behaviour Modification   show
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Strengths of Behaviour Modification   show
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Cognitive Therapies   show
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show A confrontational therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical self-defeating attitudes and assumptions. Teaching people to stop blaming themselves for failures and negative circumstances beyond their control.  
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Beck's Depression Therapy   show
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Stress Inoculation Training   show
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy   show
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Group Therapy   show
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Family Therapy   show
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Client Perspectives on Psychotherapy   show
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show Therapists overestimate the effectiveness of psychotherapy because they keep in touch with clients that are satisfied with the treatment they received. Clients emphasize their problems at the start of therapy and their well-being at the end of therapy.  
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Placebo Effect   show
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Regression Toward the Mean   show
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Hans Eysenck   show
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Randomized Clinical Trials   show
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Meta-Analysis   show
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Evidenced Based Practice   show
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Energy Therapy   show
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show A form of augmentative and alternative communication in which someone physically supports an autistic person. Facilitated communication is a scientifically unsupported treatment approach and should be avoided.  
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show Rapidly moving one’s eyes while recalling traumatic experiences. Originally developed for the treatment of anxiety and similar to systematic desensitization. Studies indicate that the value of EMDR is due to the effectiveness of exposure therapy.  
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Light Exposure Therapies   show
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Benefits of Psychotherapies   show
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show A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and a client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problem.  
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show Matching Asian-American clients with counselors who share their cultural values facilitates the therapeutic alliance. Highly religious people may prefer and benefit from therapists with similar religious beliefs.  
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Resilience   show
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show Based on the assumption that psychological disorders result from stressful social situations. Minimize psychological disorders by reducing child abuse, illiteracy, poverty and other demoralizing situations.  
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Drug Therapies   show
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Psychopharmacology   show
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Double-Blind Procedure   show
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show Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder. Produces therapeutic effects by blocking receptors sites for dopamine.  
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Chlorpromazine   show
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show Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs that includes sluggishness, tremors, and twitches similar to those of Parkinson’s disease. Associated with long-term use of drugs that occupy certain dopamine receptor sites.  
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show Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation. Designed to depress the central nervous system.  
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Xanax   show
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Ativan   show
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D-Cycloserine   show
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show Unpleasant withdrawal symptoms following the discontinued use of an anxiety drug are indicative of physiological dependence. Discontinued use of antianxiety drugs leads to increased anxiety and difficulty sleeping.  
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show Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Several widely used antidepressant drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors – SSRIs.  
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show Prescribed to elevate mood and arousal. Slow the normal reabsorption of excess serotonin from synapses. Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil are SSRIs.  
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Dual Action Drugs   show
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Lithium   show
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Depakote   show
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Electroconvulsive Therapy   show
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show The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. Treatment of depression. Does not trigger seizures and memory loss. Triggers the long-term potentiation of frontal lobe nerve cells.  
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show Involves the implantation of electrodes to inhibit activity in the area of the cortex that triggers negative emotions. Has been reported to provide relief from depression.  
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show Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behaviour. The least used biomedical intervention for changing behaviour.  
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Lobotomy   show
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show Aerobic exercise, adequate sleep, light exposure and social engagement are important components of therapeutic life-style change.  
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