Psycholgy Chap 15 Word Scramble

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Psychotherapy	any psychological technique used to facilitate positive changes in persons personality, behavior, or adjustment.
Demonology	in medieval Europe, the study of demons and the treatment of "possessed" by demons.
Psychoanalysis	a Freudian therapy that emphasizes the use of free association, dream interpretation, resistances, and transference to uncover unconscious conflicts.
free association	in psychoanalysis, the technique of having a client say anything that comes to mind, regardless of how embarrassing or unimportant it may seem.
Resistance	a blockage in the flow of free association; topics the client resist thinking or talking about.
Transference	the tendency of patients to transfer feelings to a therapist that correspond to those the patient had for important persons in his or her past.
Brief Psycho dynamic therapy	a modern therapy based on psychoanalytic theory but designed to produce insights more quickly.
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)	a brief dynamic psychotherapy designed to help people by improving their relationships with other people.
Client- Centered (or person-centered) therapy	A non-directive therapy based on insight gained from conscious thoughts and feelings; emphasizes accepting one's true self.
unconditioned positive regard	an unqualified, unshakable acceptance of another person.
Empathy	a capacity for taking anthers point of view; the ability to feel what another is feeling.
Authenticity	in Carl rogers terms, the ability of a therapist to be genuine and honest about his or her own feelings.
Reflection	in client centered therapy, the process of rephrasing or repeating thoughts and feelings expressed by clients so they can become aware of what they are saying.
Existential therapy	an insight that focuses on the elemental problems of existence, such as death, meaning, choice, and responsibility; emphasizes making courage's life choices.
Gestalt Therapy	an approach that focuses on immediate expirience and awareness to help clients rebuild thinking, feeling, and acting into connected wholes; emphasizes the integration of fragmented experiences.
Behavior Therapy	Any therapy any therapy designed to actively change behavior.
Behavior Modification	the application of learning principles to human behavior, especially maladaptive behavior.
Aversion therapy	suppressing an undesirable response by associating it with aversive (painful or uncomfortable) stimuli.
Hierachy	A rank -ordered series of higher and lower amounts, levels. degrees, or steps.
Reciprocal inhibition	the presence of one emotional state can inhibit the occurrence of another. such as joy preventing fear or anxiety inhibiting pleasure.
Systematic desensitization	a reduction in fear, anxiety, or aversion brought about by planned exposure to aversive stimuli.
Tension -release method	a produce for systematically achieving deep relaxation of the body.
Vicarious desensitization	A reduction in fear or anxiety that takes place vicariously ("Second hand") when a client watches models perform the feared behavior.
Virtual reality exposure	use of computer- generated images to present fear stimuli. the virtual environment responds to viewer's head movements and other inputs.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing(EMDR)	A technique for reducing fear or anxiety; based on holding upsetting thoughts in mind while rapidly moving the eyes from side to side.
Token Economy	A therapeutic program in which desirable behaviors are reinforced with tokens that can be exchanged fro goods, services, activities, and privileges.
Cognitive therapy	A therapy directed at changing the maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that underlie emotional and behavioral problems
Selective Perception	Perceiving only certain stimuli among a larger array of possibilities.
Over generalization	blowing a single event out of proportion by extending it to a large number of unrelated situations.
All-or nothing thinking	Classifying objects or events as absolutely right or wrong good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable, and so forth.
Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)	An approach that states that irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems that such beliefs must be changed or abandoned
Group therapy	Psychotherapy conducted in a group setting to make therapeutic use of group dynamics.
Psychodrama	A therapy in which clients act out personal conflicts and feelings in the presence of others who play supporting roles.
Role reversion	Taking the role of another person to learn how one's own behavior appears from the other person's perspective.
Family Therapy	Technique in which all family members participate, both individually and as a group, to change destructive relationships and communication patterns.
Sensitivity Group	A group expirience consisting of exercises designed to increase self-awareness and sensitivity to others.
Mirror technique	Observing another person re- enact one's own behavior, like a character in play; designed to help persons see themselves more clearly.
Encounter group	a group experience that emphasizes intensely honest interchanges among participants regarding feelings and reactions to one another.
Large-group awareness training	any number of programs (many of them commercialized) that claim to increase self- awareness and facilitate constructive personal change
Therapy Placebo effect	improvement caused not by the actual process of therapy but by a client's expectation that therapy will help.
Therapeutic alliance	a caring relationship that unites a therapist and a client inn working to solve the client's problems.
Culturally skilled therapist	a therapist who has awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to treat clients from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Somatic Therapy	any bodily therapy, such as a drug therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, or psycho surgery.
Pharmacotherapy	the use of drugs to treat psychopathology.
Anxiolytics	Drugs (such as valium) that produce relaxation or reduce anxiety.
Antidepressants	mood-elevating drugs
Antipsychotics	drugs that, in addition to having tranquilizing affects, also tend to reduce hallucinations and delusional thinking
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)	a treatment for severe depression, consisting of an electric shock passed directly through the brain, which induces a convulsion.
psychosurgery	any surgical alteration of the brain designed to bring about desirable behavioral or emotional changes.
Mental hospitalization	placing a person in a protected, therapeutic environment staffed by mental health professionals.
partial hospitalization	an approach in which patients receive treatment at a hospitol during the day but return home at night.
deinsitutionalization	reduced use of full time commitment to mental institutions to treat mental disorders.
Halfway House	a community- based facility for individuals making the transition from an institution (mental hospital, prison, and so forth) to independent living.
Community mental health center	a faciltiy offering a wide range of mental health services, such as prevention, counseling, consultation, crisis intervention.
Crisis intervention	skilled management of a psychological emergency.
Paraprofessional	An individual who works in anear- professional capacity under the supervision of a more highly trained person.

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