Treatment in which a trained professional -a therapist- uses psychological techniques to help a person overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, resolve problems in living, or bring about personal growth.

Therapy that relies on drugs and other medical procedures to improve psychological functioning.

Therapy that seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious to the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively.

3) Psychodynamic therapy - pg. 448

Freudian psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior.

4) Psychoanalysis - pg. 450

Treatment approaches that build on the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are both learned.

5) Behavioral treatment approaches - pg. 451

A form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with undesired behavior.

A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety.

7) Systematic desensitization - pg. 452

Treatment approaches that teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and themselves.

8) Cognitive treatment approaches - pg. 455

Drugs that temporarily reduce psychotic symptoms such as agitation, hallucinations, and delusions.

9) Antipsychotic drugs - pg. 468

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