PSY101-CH.13-TERMS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 PSYCHOTHERAPY | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth |
| BIOMEDICAL THERAPY | prescribed medications or medical procedures |
| 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 previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight |
| RESISTANCE | in pschoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
| INTERPRETATION | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistance, 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 (such as love or hatred for a parent) |
| PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY | a Freud-influenced perspective that sees behavior, thinking, and emotions in terms of unconscious motives |
| 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 environment to promote clients' growth. (also called person-centered therapy) |
| ACTIVE LISTENING | empathic listening in which the listerner echoes, restates, and clarities. a feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy |
| BEHAVIOR THERAPY | therapy that applies learning principals to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| CONTERCONDITIONING | 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 actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid |
| SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing, anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias |
| VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY | an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking |
| AVERSIVE CONDITIONING | a type of counterconditioninig that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) |
| TOKEN ECONOMY | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for 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 reactions |
| COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOR THERAPY | a popular integreated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) |
| FAMILY THERAPY | therapy that threats the family as a system. views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members |
| ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders |
| ANTIANXIETY DRUGS | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation |
| ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS | drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters |
| ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT) | a biomedical tyerapy for severly depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |
| REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (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 psychosurgical 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 |
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