Unit 17 - Therapy

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.