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6623365751eclectic approachan approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.0
6623365752psychotherapytreatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.1
6623365753psychoanalysisFreud'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
6623365754resistancein psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.3
6623365755interpretationin psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.4
6623365756transferencein psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).5
6623365757psychodynamic therapytherapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.6
6623365758insight therapya variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses.7
6623365759client-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.)8
6623365760active listeningempathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.9
6623365761unconditional positive regarda caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.10
6623365762behavior therapytherapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.11
6623365763counterconditioninga behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.12
6623365764exposure therapybehavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.13
6623365765systematic desensitizationa type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.14
6623365766virtual reality exposure therapyAn anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.15
6623365767aversive conditioninga type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).16
6623365768token 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 treats.17
6623365769cognitive therapytherapy 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
6623365770cognitive-behavioral therapya popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).19
6623365771family therapytherapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.20
6623365772regression toward the meanthe tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average.21
6623365773meta-analysisa procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.22
6623365774evidence-based practiceclinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.23
6623365775biomedical therapyprescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system.24
6623365776psychopharmacologythe study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior25
6623365777antipsychotic drugsdrugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder26
6623365778tardive dyskinesiainvoluntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors27
6623365779antianxiety drugsdrugs used to control anxiety and agitation28
6623365780antidepressant drugsdrugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters29
6623365781eletroconvulsive therapy (ECT)a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient30
6623365782repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity31
6623365783psychosurgerysurgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior32
6623365784lobotomya now-rare 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 brain33
6623365785resiliencethe personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma34
6623365786Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity35

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