Myers for AP ~ Unit 13 Flashcards

6444143552	Psychotherapy	treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth	0
6444143553	Biomedical Therapy	prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's physiology	1
6444143554	Eclectic Approach	an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy	2
6444143555	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 previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight	3
6444143556	Resistance	in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material	4
6444143557	Interpretation	in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight	5
6444143558	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
6444143559	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
6444143560	Insight Therapies	a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses	8
6444143561	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 (also called person-centered therapy)	9
6444143562	Active Listening	empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies; feature of Roger's client-centered therapy	10
6444143563	Unconditional Positive Regard	a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance	11
6444143564	Behavior Therapy	therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors	12
6444143565	Counterconditioning	a behavior therapy procedure that used classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning	13
6444143566	Exposure Therapies	behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid	14
6444143567	Systematic Desensitization	a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed sate with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used to treat phobias	15
6444143568	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
6444143569	Aversive Conditioning	a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)	17
6444143570	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
6444143571	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
6444143572	Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)	a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions	20
6444143573	Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)	a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)	21
6444143574	Group Therapy	therapy conducted with several people rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction	22
6444143575	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	23
6444143576	Regression Toward the Mean	the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average	24
6444143577	Meta-Analysis	a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies	25
6444143578	Evidence-Based Practice	clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.	26
6444143579	Therapeutic Alliance	a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client's problem	27
6444143580	Resilience	the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma	28
6444143581	Psychopharmacology	the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior	29
6444143582	Antipsychotic Drugs	drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder	30
6444143583	tardive dyskinesia	involuntary movement of facial muscles, tongue, and limbs. possible neurotoxic side effect of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptor	31
6444143584	Antianxiety Drugs	drugs used to control anxiety and agitation	32
6444143585	Antidepressant Drugs	drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder (includes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - SSRIs)	33
6444143586	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	34
6444143587	Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)	the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity	35
6444143588	Psychosurgery	surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior	36
6444143589	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	37