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| 9556312562 | psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological, rather than biological, techniques | 0 | |
| 9556312561 | eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy | 1 | |
| 9556312563 | psychoanalysis | Freud's therapeutic technique that focuses on releasing previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight | 2 | |
| 9556312564 | resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material | 3 | |
| 9556312565 | interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight | 4 | |
| 9556312566 | 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 | |
| 9556312569 | client-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy, developed by Rogers, involving active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth | 6 | |
| 9556312570 | active listening | empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies | 7 | |
| 9556312571 | unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance | 8 | |
| 9556312572 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principals to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | 9 | |
| 9556312574 | exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or reality) to the things they fear or avoid | 10 | |
| 9556312575 | systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli | 11 | |
| 9556312577 | aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) | 12 | |
| 9556312578 | token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and later exchange tokens for various privileges or treats | 13 | |
| 9556312579 | cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting | 14 | |
| 9556312580 | cognitive-behavioral therapy | therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) | 15 | |
| 9556312581 | 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 | 16 | |
| 9556312585 | biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervous system | 17 | |
| 9556312586 | psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior | 18 | |
| 9556312587 | antipsychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | 19 | |
| 9556312588 | 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 | 20 | |
| 9556312589 | antianxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | 21 | |
| 9556312590 | antidepressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety | 22 | |
| 9556312591 | electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient | 23 | |
| 9556312593 | psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an attempt to change behavior | 24 | |
| 9556312594 | lobotomy | a 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 brain | 25 |
