9537927537 | Deinstitutionalization | The policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals. | ![]() | 0 |
9537927538 | Prevention | Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes | ![]() | 1 |
9537927539 | Psychotherapy | An ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional | ![]() | 2 |
9537928271 | Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud Freud's therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual's unconscious thoughts | ![]() | 3 |
9537928272 | Free Association | a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind | ![]() | 4 |
9537929114 | Dream Analysis | the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client's dreams | ![]() | 5 |
9537930192 | Manifest Content | the remembered story line of a dream | ![]() | 6 |
9537930193 | Resistance | In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. | ![]() | 7 |
9537931344 | Transference | a clients thoughts, feelings, and conflicts from past and current relationships onto the therapist | ![]() | 8 |
9537931345 | Insight Therapies | Psychotherapies in which the therapist helps patients/clients understand their problems. | ![]() | 9 |
9537932192 | Humanistic Therapies | Therapies that emphasize the individual's ability to heal himself or herself with some assistance | ![]() | 10 |
9537932799 | Person-Centered Therapy | Therapy in which the goal is to reach one's potential for self-actualization. | ![]() | 11 |
9537932800 | Unconditional positive regard | An attitude of total acceptance toward another person | ![]() | 12 |
9537933679 | Active listening | empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies | ![]() | 13 |
9537933680 | Gestalt therapy | Treatment focusing on the awareness and understanding of one's feelings | ![]() | 14 |
9537936704 | Existential therapies | Therapies aimed at helping clients find meaning in their lives. | ![]() | 15 |
9537936705 | Behaviorist therapies | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | ![]() | 16 |
9537938130 | Counterconditioning | A pleasant stimulus is paired repeatedly with a fearful one, counteracting the fear | ![]() | 17 |
9537940120 | Systematic desensitization | Teaching an individual to replace feelings of anxiety with relaxation. Works great with phobias | ![]() | 18 |
9537940121 | Anxiety hierarchy | The client ranks the stimuli from the least anxiety-arousing to the most anxiety-arousing | ![]() | 19 |
9537941127 | Flooding | Treatment which immerses the client into an environment of which they have a phobia. | 20 | |
9537942159 | Aversive conditioning | A form of treatment that consists of repeated pairings of a stimulus with a very unpleasant stimulus | ![]() | 21 |
9537942160 | Token enconomy | a system of contingency management based on the systematic reinforcement of target behavior. The reinforcers are symbols or "tokens" that can be exchanged for other reinforcers. | ![]() | 22 |
9537943644 | Attributional style | The tendency by which a person infers the cause or meaning of behaviors or events. | ![]() | 23 |
9537943645 | Cognitive therapy | Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting | ![]() | 24 |
9537946029 | Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) | A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy | ![]() | 25 |
9537947273 | Rational emotive therapy (REBT) | importance on discussing and adapting how clients think | ![]() | 26 |
9537947274 | Group therapies | Therapist led small groups that are cheaper and help people see others with similar problems. | ![]() | 27 |
9537948959 | Somatic therapies | Therapies that produce bodily changes. Used by psychologists with a biological orientation. | ![]() | 28 |
9537949574 | Psychopharmacology | The study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms | ![]() | 29 |
9537950247 | Anti-psychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | ![]() | 30 |
9537950248 | Antidepressants | drugs that combat depression by affecting the levels or activity of neurotransmitters in the brain | ![]() | 31 |
9537951525 | Anti-anxiety drugs | Drugs that relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness. | ![]() | 32 |
9537954457 | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | A treatment that involves inducing a mild seizure by delivering an electrical shock to the brain | ![]() | 33 |
9537954458 | Psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior | ![]() | 34 |
9537955532 | Psychiatrist | A medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders | ![]() | 35 |
9537955533 | Clinical psychologist | Assess and treats mental, emotional, and behavior disorders | ![]() | 36 |
9537956620 | Counseling psychologist | A psychologist who usually helps people deal with problems of living | ![]() | 37 |
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