Vocab for Chapter 17 Word Scramble
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| TERM | DEFINITION |
| Psychotherapy | An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties. |
| 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 the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previous repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. |
| Resistance | In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. |
| Interpretation | In psychoanalysis, the analysist's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight. |
| Transference | In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer 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 listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic enivoroment to facilitate the clients' growth. |
| Active listening | Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restatesm abd clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. |
| Behavior therapy | Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |
| Counterconditioning | A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on the classical conditioning. Includes systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning. |
| Exposure therapies | Behavioral techniques, such as systemiatic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or reality) to the things they fear and avoid. |
| Systematic desensitization | A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with the gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. |
| Aversive conditioning | A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) whith 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 exhibiting the desired bahvior, for various priviledges or treats. |
| Cognitive therapy | Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions. |
| Cognitive-behavior therapy | A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changes self-defeating thinking) with the behavior therapy (changing behavior). |
| Family therapy | Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an indivual's unwated behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication. |
| Regression toward the mean | The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average. |
| Meta-analysis | A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies. |
| Psychopharmacology | The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior. |
| Lithium | A chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders. |
| Electroconvulsive therapy | A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized pateint. |
| Psychosurgery | Surgery that remoes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior. |
| Lobotomy | A now-rare psychosurigcal procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the innter brain. |
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