Pscyhological Therapies, Evaluating Therapies, Biomedical Therapies
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| 2118290408 | Psychotherapy | An interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties or wants to achieve personal growth. | 0 | |
| 2118290409 | Psychoanalysis | (Sigmund Freud) Uses patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transference, and therapist interpretations of them, releasing previously repressed feelings and allowing the patient to gain self-insight. | 1 | |
| 2118290410 | Eclectic Approach | An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. | 2 | |
| 2118290411 | 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. | 3 | |
| 2118290412 | Insight Therapies | A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses | 4 | |
| 2118290413 | Client-Centered | A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients' growth. | 5 | |
| 2118290414 | Active Listening | Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. | 6 | |
| 2118290415 | Unconditional Positive Regard | A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance | 7 | |
| 2118290416 | Behavior Therapy | A form of psychotherapy in which disruptive behaviors are changed and human functioning's improved based on learning principles via Classical and/or Operant Conditioning. Focuses more on changing particular behaviors than possible unconscious/underlying factors. (Sometimes called behavior modification or cognitive-behavior therapy) | 8 | |
| 2118290417 | Counter-conditioning | A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors (pairs trigger stimulus with fear-incompatible response); includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. | 9 | |
| 2118290418 | 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 | 10 | |
| 2118290419 | Systematic Desensitization | A type of exposure therapy associating pleasant relaxed state (progressive relaxation) with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. | 11 | |
| 2118290420 | Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy | An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears (when anxiety-rousing situations are too expensive, difficult, or embarrassing to recreate) | 12 | |
| 2118290421 | Aversive Conditioning | A type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior (think: Clockwork Orange) | 13 | |
| 2118290422 | 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 (deals with less specific psycho-cognitive problems, like depression of general anxiety, which make forming hierarchy of anxiety-triggering situations tough). Includes REBT (rational emotive behavior therapy) and CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) | 14 | |
| 2118290423 | Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | Confrontational Cognitive therapy developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges peoples illogical self-defeating attitudes and assumptions | 15 | |
| 2118290424 | Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy | popular integrative therapy combining cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). Focus on maintaining awareness of irrational negative thoughts and the practice of the replacement thoughts with prevention of relapses. | 16 | |
| 2118290425 | Group Therapy | therapy conducted with groups; benefits: saves therapist's time/clients' money; offers social lab ti explore social behaviors and develops social skills; enables understanding others' share problems; feedback provided for newly developing behaviors | 17 | |
| 2118290426 | Meta-Analysis | A procedure for statistically combining the conclusions of many different research studies (provides bottom-line results of lots of studies) | 18 | |
| 2118290427 | Evidence-Based Practice | Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences | 19 | |
| 2118290428 | Resilience | personal strength helping most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma | 20 | |
| 2118290429 | Biomedical Therapy | Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology. | 21 | |
| 2118290430 | Psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | 22 | |
| 2118290431 | Antipsychotic Drugs | Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | 23 | |
| 2118290432 | Anti-anxiety Drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | 24 | |
| 2118290433 | Antidepressant Drugs | Treat depression, anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD/ utilize SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) | 25 | |
| 2118290434 | Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) | A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which brief electric current's sent though anesthetized patient's brain | 26 | |
| 2118290435 | Psychosurgery | surgery removing/ destroying brain tissue to alter behavior | 27 | |
| 2118290436 | 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 | 28 |
