Psych unit 13 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
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 eclectic approach | an approach to psycho therapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from vaious forms of therapy |
| psychotherapy | treatment using psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth |
| psychoanalysis | Freud's therapeutic technique. He believed patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist's interpretations fo 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 therapist's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight |
| transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships |
| psychodynamic therapy | therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight |
| insight therapies | a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses |
| client-centered therapies | a humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rodgers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate client's growth |
| active listening | empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rodger's client-centered therapies |
| unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning |
| exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid |
| systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state wit gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias |
| virtual reality exposure therapy | an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking |
| aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior |
| token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges 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 interactions |
| cognitive-behavioral therapy | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
| family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members |
| regression toward the mean | the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back, or regress, toward their average |
| meta analysis | procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies |
| evidence based practice | clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences |
| biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system |
| psychopharmacology | study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior |
| antipsychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder |
| tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible side effect of long term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors |
| antianxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation |
| antidepressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters |
| 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 |
| repetitive transcranial magnetic stimualtion (rTMS) | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity |
| psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
| lobotomy | a now-rare psycosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain |
| resilience | the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma |
| behavior modification | desired behaviors are rewarded and undesired behaviors are either unrewarded or punished. |
| Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) | a controversial, pseudoscientific therapy, in which someone imagines an anxiety provoking thought, then has something waved in front of their face so that their eyes dart back and forth. The belief is that the brain will unlock and reprocess "frozen memories." |
| Light exposure therapy | designed to counteract Season Affective Disorder (SAD) |
| chlorpromazine | ingredient in Thorazine. Block dopamine receptors |
| antypical antipsychotics | remove negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia such as apathy, jumbled thoughts, concentration difficulties, and difficulties interacting with others. |
| clozapine | blocks receptors for dopamine and serotonin to remove the negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
| Xanax and ativan | depress the central nervous system and reduce anxiety by elevating the levels of the GABA neurotransmitter. |
| SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) | improve mood by elevating levels of serotonin by inhibiting reuptake. Examples: Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil |
| deep brain stimulation | used to treat depression and parkinsons, an implanted electrode and a pacemaker provide stimulation to the brain in depressed areas. |
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