Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding, Chapter 16: Psychological and Biological Treatments "Helping People Change," vocabulary words.
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| 271693329 | Psychotherapy | A Psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives. | |
| 271693330 | Paraprofessional | Person with no professional training who provides mental health services. | |
| 271693331 | Insight Therapies | Psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight. | |
| 271693332 | Free Association | Technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort | |
| 271693333 | Resistance | Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses. | |
| 271693334 | Transference | Projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist. | |
| 271693335 | Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) | Treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions. | |
| 271693336 | Humanistic Therapies | Therapies that emphasize the development of human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive. | |
| 271693337 | Person-Centered Therapy | Therapy centering on client's goals and ways of solving problems. | |
| 271693338 | Gestalt Therapy | Therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self. | |
| 271693339 | Group Therapy | Therapy that treats more than one person at a time. | |
| 271693340 | Alcoholics Anonymous | Twelve-Step, self help program that provides social support for achieving sobriety. | |
| 271693341 | Strategic Family Intervention | Family therapy approach designed to remove barriers to effective communication. | |
| 271693342 | Structural Family Therapy | Treatment in which therapists deeply involve themselves in family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions. | |
| 271693343 | Behavior Therapist | Therapist who focuses on specific problem behaviors, and current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviors. | |
| 271693344 | Systematic Desensitization | Clients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear in a stepwise manner. | |
| 271693345 | Exposure Therapy | Therapy that confronts clients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear. | |
| 271693346 | Dismantling | Research procedure for examining the effectiveness of isolated components of a larger treatment. | |
| 271693347 | Response Prevention | Technique in which therapists prevent clients from performing their typical avoidance behaviors | |
| 271693348 | Participant Modeling | Technique in which the therapist first models a problematic situation and then guides the client through steps to cope with it unassisted. | |
| 271693349 | Token Economy | Method in which desirable behaviors are rewarded with tokens that clients can exchange for tangible rewards. | |
| 271693350 | Aversion Therapy | Treatment that uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviors. | |
| 271693351 | Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies | Treatments that attempt to replace maladapative or irrational cognition with more adaptive, rational cognition. | |
| 271693352 | Meta-Analysis | Statistical method that helps researchers to interpret large bodies of psychological literature. | |
| 271693353 | Empirically Supported Treatment (EST) | Intervention for specific disorders supported by high-quality scientific evidence. | |
| 271693354 | Psychopharmacotherapy | Use of medications to treat psychological problems | |
| 271693355 | Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) | Patients receive brief electrical pluses to the brain that produces a seizure to treat serious psychological problems. | |
| 271693356 | Psychosurgery | Brain surgery to treat psychological problems |
