6283913154 | eclectic approach | An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy | 0 | |
6283911842 | psychotherapy | Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth | 1 | |
6283927568 | resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material. | 2 | |
6283918199 | interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. | 3 | |
6283925583 | psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings allowing the patient to gain self-insight | 4 | |
6283925582 | transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships | 5 | |
6283933503 | psychodynamic therapies | therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight | 6 | |
6283913155 | insight therapies | a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses | 7 | |
6283924221 | 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 | 8 | |
6283922207 | active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy | 9 | |
6283925581 | unconditional positive regard | a caring accepting nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance | 10 | |
6283910550 | aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol. | 11 | |
6283918198 | counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning | 12 | |
6283929434 | 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 | 13 | |
6283927569 | systematic desentsitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias | 14 | |
6283920720 | virtual reality exposure therapy | an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying spiders, or public speaking | 15 | |
6283911841 | 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 | 16 | |
6283920719 | 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 | 17 | |
6283914643 | 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 | 18 | |
6283918197 | cognitive-behavioral therapy | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy(changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) | 19 | |
6283922206 | behavioral therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | 20 | |
6284621369 | regression toward the mean | the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average | 21 | |
6284618693 | meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies | 22 | |
6284622919 | evidence-based practice | clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences | 23 | |
6284618694 | psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior | 24 | |
6284627985 | psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior | 25 | |
6284626516 | antipsychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | 26 | |
6284621370 | tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors | 27 | |
6284627984 | antianxiety drugs | drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | 28 | |
6284629209 | antidepressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters | 29 | |
6284624997 | electroconvulsive therapy | a biochemical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient | 30 | |
6284635082 | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity | 31 | |
6284618695 | 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 | 32 | |
6284620250 | biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system | 33 | |
6284626517 | resilience | the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma | 34 | |
9107520231 | Aaron Beck | cognitive therapist who sought to reverse clients' catastrophizing beliefs about themselves, their situations, and their futures | 35 | |
9107520232 | Dorothea Dix | worked in the transition from brutal to gentler treatments of mental patients, advocated mental hospitals to offer more humane methods of treatment | 36 | |
9107524243 | Mary Cover Jones | Came up with a counter-conditioning therapy to replace Peter's fear of rabbits with him liking the rabbit | 37 | |
9107524244 | Benjamin Rush | Designed a chair "for the benefit of maniacal patients". He believed the restraints would help them regain their sensibilities | 38 | |
9107527328 | Joseph Wolpe | psychologist who refined Jones' counter-conditioning therapy into one of the most widely used therapies today...exposure therapy | 39 |
AP Psych Unit 13 Flashcards
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