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| 12505172 | psychotherapy | An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties | |
| 12505173 | eclectic approach | An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | |
| 12505174 | psychoanalysis | The patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing a patient to gain self-insight | |
| 12505175 | resistance | In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material | |
| 12505176 | interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight | |
| 12505177 | transference | In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships | |
| 12505178 | client-centered therapy | A humanistic therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth | |
| 12505179 | active listening | Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies | |
| 12505180 | behavior therapy | Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | |
| 12505181 | counterconditioning | A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors | |
| 12505182 | exposure therapies | Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid | |
| 12505183 | systematic desensitization | A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli | |
| 12505184 | aversive conditioning | A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior | |
| 12505185 | token economy | An operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior - a patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for various privileges or treats | |
| 12505186 | 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 | |
| 12505187 | cognitive-behavior therapy | A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy | |
| 12505188 | family therapy | Therpay that treats the family as a system - views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members | |
| 12505189 | regression toward the mean | The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back toward their average | |
| 12505190 | meta-analysis | A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies | |
| 12505191 | psychopharmacology | The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | |
| 12505192 | lithium | A chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar disorders | |
| 12505193 | electroconvulsive therpay (ECT) | A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient | |
| 12505194 | psychosurgery | Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior | |
| 12505195 | lobotomy | A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients - the procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain |
