Exploring Psychology 9th edition Chapter 15 Flashcards

4331993258	psychotherapy	Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth	0
4331993259	biomedical therapy	Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology.	1
4331993260	eclectic approach	An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy	2
4331993261	psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist's interpretations of them- released the previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight	3
4331993262	resistance	In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material	4
4331993263	interpretation	In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.	5
4331993264	transference	In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).	6
4331993265	psychodynamic therapy	therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight	7
4331993266	insight therapies	A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses	8
4331993267	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)	9
4331993268	active listening	Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.	10
4331993269	unconditional positive regard	a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed to be conducive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance.	11
4331993270	behavior therapy	therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors	12
4331993271	counterconditioning	behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning	13
4331993272	exposure therapies	Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.	14
4331993273	systematic desensitization	A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.	15
4331993274	virtual reality exposure therapy	an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking	16
4331993275	aversive conditioning	A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)	17
4331993276	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.	18
4331993277	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	19
4331993278	cognitive-behavioral therapy	A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)	20
4331993279	group therapy	therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction	21
4331993280	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	22
4331993281	evidence-based practice	Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.	23
4331993282	psychopharmacology	the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior	24
4331993283	antipsychotic drugs	Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder	25
4331993284	antianxiety drugs	Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation	26
4331993285	antidepressant drugs	Drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters	27
4331993286	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	28
4331993287	repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)	The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.	29
4331993288	psychosurgery	surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior	30
4331993289	lobotomy	A 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.	31
4331993290	resilience	the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma	32