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| 156211963 | Psychotherapy | an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties. | |
| 156211964 | Eclectic Approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. | |
| 156211965 | Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and the therapist's interpretations of tem—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. | |
| 156211966 | Resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. | |
| 156211967 | Interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight. | |
| 156211968 | Transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analysis of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent). | |
| 156211969 | 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 clients' growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.) | |
| 156211970 | Active Listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. | |
| 156211971 | Behavior Therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. | |
| 156211972 | 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. | |
| 156211973 | 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. | |
| 156211974 | Systematic Desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. | |
| 156211975 | Aversive Conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol). | |
| 156211976 | 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. | |
| 156211977 | 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. | |
| 156211978 | Cognitive-behavior Therapy | a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). | |
| 156211979 | 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. | |
| 156211980 | Meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies. | |
| 156211981 | Psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior. | |
| 156211982 | Lithium | a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders. | |
| 156211983 | 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. |
