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| 6498111850 | eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |  | 0 |
| 6498111851 | psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. |  | 1 |
| 6498111852 | psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. 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. |  | 2 |
| 6498111853 | resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. |  | 3 |
| 6498111854 | interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. |  | 4 |
| 6498111855 | transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent). |  | 5 |
| 6498111856 | 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. |  | 6 |
| 6498111857 | insight therapy | a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses. |  | 7 |
| 6498111858 | 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 facilitate clients' growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.) | 8 | |
| 6498111859 | active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. | 9 | |
| 6498111860 | unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. | 10 | |
| 6498111861 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. | 11 | |
| 6498111862 | counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to bring about new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. Ex: teaching someone to associate heights with feelings of relaxation instead of feelings of fear. |  | 12 |
| 6498111863 | exposure therapy | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid. |  | 13 |
| 6498111864 | systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. |  | 14 |
| 6498111865 | 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. |  | 15 |
| 6498111866 | aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol). Used to get rid of unwanted behaviors. | 16 | |
| 6498111867 | token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats. Ex: each time a child with selective mutism speaks to a new person, he or she receives a token. |  | 17 |
| 6498111868 | 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. | 18 | |
| 6498111869 | cognitive-behavioral therapy | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). |  | 19 |
| 6498111870 | 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. |  | 20 |
| 6498111874 | biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system. |  | 21 |
| 6498111876 | antipsychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder. Brand names include Thorazine & Haldol. |  | 22 |
| 6498111877 | tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors | 23 | |
| 6498111878 | antianxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation by depressing the central nervous system such as Xanax and Valium | 24 | |
| 6498111879 | Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's) | Most drugs used to treat depression fit into this category; they work by altering serotonin activity in the brain. Brand names include Prozac, Zoloft, etc. May also be used to treat anxiety | 25 | |
| 6498111880 | eletroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |  | 26 |
| 6498111883 | lobotomy | a (now-rare) psycho-surgical 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 |  | 27 |
| 6498184389 | REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) | Albert Ellis' form of cognitive therapy, which in comparison to other types of cognitive therapy is more confrontational and direct. (Therapist may point out illogical thinking in a more straight forward manner rather than using gentle questioning) | 28 | |
| 6498192945 | Aaron Beck | cognitive therapist- used gentle questioning to help clients recognize distorted thinking patterns and establish new ways of thinking. | 29 | |
| 6498198030 | Joseph Wolpe & Mary Cover-Jones | behavioral therapists who developed systematic desensitization. | 30 |
