7th edition
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| 117813505 | psychotherapy | an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties | |
| 117813506 | eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | |
| 117813507 | psychoanalysis | Freud's theraputic technique. He believed that 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 | |
| 117813508 | resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material | |
| 117813509 | interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight | |
| 117813510 | transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent). | |
| 117813511 | 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 client's growth | |
| 117813512 | active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. | |
| 117813513 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | |
| 117813514 | counterconditioning | A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Includes systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning | |
| 117813515 | exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid | |
| 117813516 | systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used to treat phobias | |
| 117813517 | aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) | |
| 117813518 | 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. | |
| 117813519 | 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 | |
| 117813520 | cognitive-behavior therapy | a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behaviour) | |
| 117813521 | 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; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication | |
| 117813522 | psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | |
| 117813523 | lithium | a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders | |
| 117813524 | electroconvulsive therapy | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient | |
| 117813525 | psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior | |
| 117813526 | 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 |
