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| 4331993258 | psychotherapy | Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth | 0 | |
| 4331993259 | biomedical therapy | Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology. | 1 | |
| 4331993260 | eclectic approach | An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | 2 | |
| 4331993261 | psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist's interpretations of them- released the previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight | 3 | |
| 4331993262 | resistance | In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material | 4 | |
| 4331993263 | interpretation | In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. | 5 | |
| 4331993264 | transference | In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent). | 6 | |
| 4331993265 | 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 | 7 | |
| 4331993266 | insight therapies | A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses | 8 | |
| 4331993267 | 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) | 9 | |
| 4331993268 | active listening | Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. | 10 | |
| 4331993269 | unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed to be conducive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance. | 11 | |
| 4331993270 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | 12 | |
| 4331993271 | counterconditioning | behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning | 13 | |
| 4331993272 | exposure therapies | Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid. | 14 | |
| 4331993273 | systematic desensitization | A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. | 15 | |
| 4331993274 | virtual reality exposure therapy | an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking | 16 | |
| 4331993275 | aversive conditioning | A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) | 17 | |
| 4331993276 | token economy | An 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. | 18 | |
| 4331993277 | 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 | 19 | |
| 4331993278 | cognitive-behavioral therapy | A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) | 20 | |
| 4331993279 | group therapy | therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction | 21 | |
| 4331993280 | 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 | 22 | |
| 4331993281 | evidence-based practice | Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences. | 23 | |
| 4331993282 | psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | 24 | |
| 4331993283 | antipsychotic drugs | Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | 25 | |
| 4331993284 | antianxiety drugs | Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | 26 | |
| 4331993285 | antidepressant drugs | Drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters | 27 | |
| 4331993286 | 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 | 28 | |
| 4331993287 | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. | 29 | |
| 4331993288 | psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior | 30 | |
| 4331993289 | lobotomy | A 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. | 31 | |
| 4331993290 | resilience | the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma | 32 |
