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13455397370Psychotherapytreatment involving psychological techniques0
13455397371biomedical therapyprescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology1
13455397372eclectic approachan approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy2
13455397373Sigmund Freudfounder of psychoanalysis3
13455397374interpretationin psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight4
13455397375PsychoanalysisSigmund 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.5
13455397376Transferencein psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)6
13455397377Resistancein psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material7
13455397378psychodynamic therapytherapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight8
13455397379insight therapiesA variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses9
13455397380client-centered therapya humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.)10
13455397381active listeningempathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies11
13455397382unconditional positive regardaccording to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person12
13455397383behavior therapytherapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors13
13455397384counterconditioningbehavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning14
13455397385exposure therapytherapy that confronts clients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear15
13455397386systematic desensitizationA type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.16
13455397387virtual reality exposure therapyanxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears17
13455397388aversive conditioninga type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)18
13455397389B.F. Skinneroperant conditioning19
13455397390token economyan 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 treats20
13455397391behavior modificationthe use of operant conditioning techniques to bring about desired changes in behavior21
13455397392Ivan Pavlovclassical conditioning22
13455410705Carl RogersHumanisic; self-concept and unconditional positive regard drive personality23

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