AP Psychology Treatment Flashcards

9537927537	Deinstitutionalization	The policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals.	0
9537927538	Prevention	Taking action to avoid disease, injury, and other negative health outcomes	1
9537927539	Psychotherapy	An ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional	2
9537928271	Psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud Freud's therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual's unconscious thoughts	3
9537928272	Free Association	a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind	4
9537929114	Dream Analysis	the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client's dreams	5
9537930192	Manifest Content	the remembered story line of a dream	6
9537930193	Resistance	In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.	7
9537931344	Transference	a clients thoughts, feelings, and conflicts from past and current relationships onto the therapist	8
9537931345	Insight Therapies	Psychotherapies in which the therapist helps patients/clients understand their problems.	9
9537932192	Humanistic Therapies	Therapies that emphasize the individual's ability to heal himself or herself with some assistance	10
9537932799	Person-Centered Therapy	Therapy in which the goal is to reach one's potential for self-actualization.	11
9537932800	Unconditional positive regard	An attitude of total acceptance toward another person	12
9537933679	Active listening	empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies	13
9537933680	Gestalt therapy	Treatment focusing on the awareness and understanding of one's feelings	14
9537936704	Existential therapies	Therapies aimed at helping clients find meaning in their lives.	15
9537936705	Behaviorist therapies	therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors	16
9537938130	Counterconditioning	A pleasant stimulus is paired repeatedly with a fearful one, counteracting the fear	17
9537940120	Systematic desensitization	Teaching an individual to replace feelings of anxiety with relaxation. Works great with phobias	18
9537940121	Anxiety hierarchy	The client ranks the stimuli from the least anxiety-arousing to the most anxiety-arousing	19
9537941127	Flooding	Treatment which immerses the client into an environment of which they have a phobia.	20
9537942159	Aversive conditioning	A form of treatment that consists of repeated pairings of a stimulus with a very unpleasant stimulus	21
9537942160	Token enconomy	a system of contingency management based on the systematic reinforcement of target behavior. The reinforcers are symbols or "tokens" that can be exchanged for other reinforcers.	22
9537943644	Attributional style	The tendency by which a person infers the cause or meaning of behaviors or events.	23
9537943645	Cognitive therapy	Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting	24
9537946029	Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)	A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy	25
9537947273	Rational emotive therapy (REBT)	importance on discussing and adapting how clients think	26
9537947274	Group therapies	Therapist led small groups that are cheaper and help people see others with similar problems.	27
9537948959	Somatic therapies	Therapies that produce bodily changes. Used by psychologists with a biological orientation.	28
9537949574	Psychopharmacology	The study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms	29
9537950247	Anti-psychotic drugs	drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder	30
9537950248	Antidepressants	drugs that combat depression by affecting the levels or activity of neurotransmitters in the brain	31
9537951525	Anti-anxiety drugs	Drugs that relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness.	32
9537954457	Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)	A treatment that involves inducing a mild seizure by delivering an electrical shock to the brain	33
9537954458	Psychosurgery	surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior	34
9537955532	Psychiatrist	A medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders	35
9537955533	Clinical psychologist	Assess and treats mental, emotional, and behavior disorders	36
9537956620	Counseling psychologist	A psychologist who usually helps people deal with problems of living	37