Myers Exploring Psychology Chapter 14

7th edition

117813505	psychotherapy	an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
117813506	eclectic approach	an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
117813507	psychoanalysis	Freud's theraputic technique. He believed that the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
117813508	resistance	in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
117813509	interpretation	in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight
117813510	transference	in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
117813511	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 client's growth
117813512	active listening	empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.
117813513	behavior therapy	therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
117813514	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
117813515	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
117813516	systematic desensitization	a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used to treat phobias
117813517	aversive conditioning	a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
117813518	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.
117813519	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
117813520	cognitive-behavior therapy	a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behaviour)
117813521	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
117813522	psychopharmacology	the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
117813523	lithium	a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders
117813524	electroconvulsive therapy	a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
117813525	psychosurgery	surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
117813526	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