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| 57118282 | psychotherapy | general term for psychological treatment | |
| 57118283 | eclectic approach | aporach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy | |
| 57118284 | placebo effect | improvement during therapy, due to hopes and expectations | |
| 57118285 | empathy | warmth and understanding | |
| 57118286 | group therapy | patients/clients work together with the aid of a leader | |
| 57118287 | family therapy | treatment of two or more individuals from the same family | |
| 57118288 | self-help groups | voluntary groups of people who share a problem | |
| 57118289 | psychoanalysis | Freud, make patients aware of their unconscious motives | |
| 57118290 | insight | a sudden realization of the solution to a problem | |
| 57118291 | free association | psychoanalysis; patients express themselves without censorship of any sort | |
| 57118292 | resistance | psychoanalysis; reluctance to reveal feelings, or examine behavior | |
| 57118293 | dream analysis | psychoanalysis; interpret dream content | |
| 57118294 | transference | psychotherapy, patient begins to relate to the therapist in the same way he/she would to another important person in his/her life (parent) | |
| 57118295 | humanistic therapy | therapy whose goal is to help individuals reach their full potential, help to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance | |
| 57118296 | client-centered therapy | Rogers; client and therapist are partners | |
| 57118297 | nondirective therapy | client-centered; clients encouraged to take the lead, talk about whatever may be troubling them | |
| 57118298 | active listening | client-centered; listener echoes, restates, and clarifies the speakers thoughts | |
| 57118299 | unconditional positive regard | Rogers, client-centered, attitude of nonjudgmental acceptance toward another person | |
| 57118300 | behavior modification | systematic changing of behavior through the application of the principles of conditioning | |
| 57118301 | cognitive therapy | using thoughts to control emotions and behaviors | |
| 57118302 | rational-emotive therapy | Ellis; aimed at changing unrealistic assumptions, ABCs | |
| 57118303 | systematic desensitization | behavior therapy; counterconditioning, gradual exposure to feared situations paired with relaxation. | |
| 57118304 | flooding | behavior therapy; treat phobias, safely exposed to something they fear until the fear response fades away | |
| 57118305 | modeling | behavior therapy; process of observing and imitating a specific behavior | |
| 57118306 | contingency management | behavior therapy; reinforce desired behavior, undersired behavior is not reinforced | |
| 57118307 | token economy | behavior therapy; desirable behavior is reinforced with valueless objects, which can be exchanged for valued rewards | |
| 57118308 | cognitive-behavior therapy | substitute healthy thoughts for negaivte thoughts, and change behavior | |
| 57118309 | biomedical therapy | therapy that is based on the assumption that psychological disorders are symptoms of underlying physical problems | |
| 57118310 | drug therapy | treatment that relieves symptoms through medication | |
| 57118311 | antipsychotic drugs | used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, block dopamine, major tranquilizers | |
| 57118312 | antidepressant drugs | used to treat major depression, by increasing noradrenaline and/or serotonin | |
| 57118313 | lithium carbonate | used for bipolar disorder, moderating levels of norepinephrine | |
| 57118314 | antianxiety drugs | used to reduce tension and anxiety; work on the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA, minor tranquilizers | |
| 57118315 | electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | limited usefulness as a treatment for people with severe depression who do not respond to others | |
| 57118316 | psychosurgery | removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior. | |
| 57118317 | prefrontal lobotomy | surgical procedure in which neural pathways in the brain are severed in order to control violent or aggressive behavior | |
| 57118318 | Albert Ellis | rational-emotive therapy | |
| 57118319 | Aaron Beck | problems are a result of destrutive self-talk, depression | |
| 57118320 | Carl Rogers | client-centered therapy | |
| 57118321 | aversion therapy | behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli to alter behavior | |
| 57118322 | shaping | reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior. | |
| 57118323 | interpretation | psychoanalysis; analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight | |
| 57118324 | insight therapy | encourages insight and self awareness; includes the psychodynamic and humanistic therapies | |
| 57118325 | psychopharmacology | study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | |
| 57118326 | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain | |
| 103228658 | sigmund freud | psychoanalysis, free association, resistance, transference | |
| 103228659 | mary cover jones | invented counterconditioning; used behavior techniques to remove fear | |
| 103228660 | joseph wolpe | use of systematic desensitization to treat phobias |
