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Psychology Ch.16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives | psychotherapy |
| person with no professional training who provides mental health services | paraprofessional |
| psychotherapies, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and group approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight | insight therapies |
| technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort | free association |
| attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions, and impulses | resistance |
| projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist | transference |
| treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions | interpersonal therapy (IPT) |
| therapies that emphasize the development of human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive | humanistic therapies |
| therapy centering on the client's goals and ways of solving problems | person-centered therapy |
| therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self | Gestalt therapy |
| therapy that treats more than one person at a time | group therapy |
| Twelve-Ste[, self-help program that provides social support for achieving sobriety | Alcoholics Anonymous |
| family therapy approach designed to remove barriers to effective communication | strategic family intervention |
| treatment in which therapists deeply involve themselves in family activities to change how family members arrange and organize interactions | structural family therapy |
| therapist who focuses on specific problem behaviors, and current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors | behavior therapist |
| clients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear in a stepwise manner | systematic desensitization |
| therapy that confronts clients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear | exposure therapy |
| research procedure for examining the effectiveness of isolated components of a larger treatment | dismantling |
| technique in which therapists prevent clients from performing their typical avoidance behaviors | response prevention |
| technique in which the therapist first models a problematic situation and then guides the client through steps to cope with it unassisted | participant modeling |
| method in which desirable behaviors are rewarded with tokens that clients can exchange for tangible rewards | token economy |
| treatment that uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviors | aversion therapy |
| treatments that attempt to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adaptive, rational cognitions | cognitive-behavioral therapies |
| statistical method that helps researchers to interpret large bodies of psychological literature | meta-analysis |
| intervention for specific disorders supported by high-quality scientific evidence | empirically supported treatment (EST) |
| use of medications to treat psychological problems | psychopharmacotherapy |
| patients receive brief electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure to treat serious psychological problems | electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
| brain surgery to treat psychological problems | psychosurgery |
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