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McCrary Unit 7
Treatment for abnormal psych, AP psychology 18-19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychotherapy | treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psych difficulties or achieve personal goals |
| biomedical therapy | prescribed medications/procedures that act directly on the person's psychology |
| eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy |
| psychoanalysis | sigmund freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed that the patient's free associations , resistance, dreams, and transferences-and the therapist's interpretations of them-released repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight |
| resistance | an psychoanalysis, the blocking of consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
| interpretation | an analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and significant behaviors/events to promote insight |
| transference | in psychoanalysis, a patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships(love/hatred for a parent) |
| psychodynamic therapy | therapy deriving from from the psychodynamic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight |
| humanistic therapies | attempts to reduce growth-inhibiting inner conflicts by providing clients with self insight |
| insight therapies | a variety of therapies that aim to improve psych functioning by increasing awareness to underlying motives and activities |
| client centered therapy | a humanistic therapy; developed by Carl Rodgers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate a client's growth |
| active listening | empathetic listening in which a listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. feature of client centered therapy |
| unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self acceptance |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| counterconditioning | behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning |
| exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and VR exposure therapies, that treat anxieties by exposing people(in imagination/actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid |
| systematic desensitization | a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias |
| virtual reality exposure therapy | an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulation of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking |
| aversive conditioning | a type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state(nausea, etc.) with an unwanted behavior(drinking alcohol) |
| 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 |
| cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumptions that thoughts intervene between events/our emotional responses |
| rational-emotive behavior therapy | a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions |
| cognitive behavioral therapy | a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy(changing self-defeating thoughts) with behavior(changing behavior) |
| group therapy | therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from groups interactions |
| family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system. views the individual's unwanted behavior as influenced by other family behaviors |
| regression towards the mean | the tendency for extreme scores to fall back towards their average |
| meta-analysis | a procedure for statistical combining the results of many different research studies |
| evidence based procedure | clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical experience and preferences |
| therapeutic alliance | a ban of trust/mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who works together and constructively to overcome the client's problem |
| resilience | the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress/recover from adversity and even trauma |
| psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior |
| antipsychotic drugs | drugs used to treat schizophrenia/other forms of severe thought disorder |
| anti anxiety drugs | drugs used to treat anxiety and depression |
| antidepressant drugs | drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and post traumatic stress disorders(several widely used antidepressant drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI) |
| 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 |
| repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity |
| psychosurgery | surgery that removes/destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
| 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 |
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