Vocabulary from Chapter 17: Therapy
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| 371829121 | psychotherapy | an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties | |
| 371829122 | eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | |
| 371829123 | psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique; Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretation of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight | |
| 371829124 | resistance | the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material | |
| 371829125 | interpretation | the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight | |
| 371829126 | transference | the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) | |
| 371829127 | client-centered therapy | therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients' growth | |
| 371829128 | active listening | empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies | |
| 371829129 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | |
| 371829130 | counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors | |
| 371829131 | exposure therapies | behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid | |
| 371829132 | systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxing stimulus with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli | |
| 371829133 | aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (nausea) with unwanted behavior | |
| 371829134 | token economy | an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behaviors; a patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for various privileges or treats | |
| 371829135 | cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting | |
| 371829136 | cognitive-behavior thearpy | a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) | |
| 371829137 | family therapy | treats the family as a system; views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members and attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication | |
| 371829138 | regression toward the mean | the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average | |
| 371829139 | meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies | |
| 371829140 | psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | |
| 371829141 | lithium | a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders | |
| 371829142 | electroconvulsive therapy | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient | |
| 371829143 | psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior | |
| 371829144 | lobotomy | a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients; the procedure cut the nerves that connected the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain |
