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| 6444143552 | Psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth | 0 | |
| 6444143553 | Biomedical Therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's physiology | 1 | |
| 6444143554 | Eclectic Approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | 2 | |
| 6444143555 | 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 previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight | 3 | |
| 6444143556 | Resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material | 4 | |
| 6444143557 | Interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight | 5 | |
| 6444143558 | 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 | |
| 6444143559 | 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 | |
| 6444143560 | Insight Therapies | a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses | 8 | |
| 6444143561 | 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 (also called person-centered therapy) | 9 | |
| 6444143562 | Active Listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies; feature of Roger's client-centered therapy | 10 | |
| 6444143563 | Unconditional Positive Regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance | 11 | |
| 6444143564 | Behavior Therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | 12 | |
| 6444143565 | Counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that used classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning | 13 | |
| 6444143566 | Exposure Therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid | 14 | |
| 6444143567 | Systematic Desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed sate with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used to treat phobias | 15 | |
| 6444143568 | 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 | |
| 6444143569 | Aversive Conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) | 17 | |
| 6444143570 | 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 | |
| 6444143571 | 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 | |
| 6444143572 | Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions | 20 | |
| 6444143573 | Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) | 21 | |
| 6444143574 | Group Therapy | therapy conducted with several people rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction | 22 | |
| 6444143575 | 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 | 23 | |
| 6444143576 | Regression Toward the Mean | the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average | 24 | |
| 6444143577 | Meta-Analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies | 25 | |
| 6444143578 | Evidence-Based Practice | clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences. | 26 | |
| 6444143579 | Therapeutic Alliance | a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client's problem | 27 | |
| 6444143580 | Resilience | the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma | 28 | |
| 6444143581 | Psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | 29 | |
| 6444143582 | Antipsychotic Drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | 30 | |
| 6444143583 | tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movement of facial muscles, tongue, and limbs. possible neurotoxic side effect of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptor | 31 | |
| 6444143584 | Antianxiety Drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | 32 | |
| 6444143585 | Antidepressant Drugs | drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder (includes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - SSRIs) | 33 | |
| 6444143586 | 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 | 34 | |
| 6444143587 | Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity | 35 | |
| 6444143588 | Psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior | 36 | |
| 6444143589 | 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 | 37 |
