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| Involve verbal interactions intended to enchance clients' self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior |
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| An insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses throguh techniques such as free association and transference |
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| Largely unconscious defensive maneuvers intended to hinder the progress of therapy (psychoanalytic process) |
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| Occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives. (the client transfers conflicting feelings about important people onto the therapist) |
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| Occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives. (the client transfers conflicting feelings about important people onto the therapist) |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| A behavior therapy used to reduce clients' phobic responses (devised by Joseph Wolpe) |
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| Involved the application of the principles of learning and conditioning to direct efforts to change clients' maladaptive behaviors |
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| Uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders. (Aaron Beck) |
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| A neurological disorder marked by involuntary writhing and ticlike movements of the mouth, tongue, face, hands or feet. [no cure] |
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| Reduce tension, apprehension, and nervousness |
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| Used to gradually reduce psychotic symptoms, inclding hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations and delusions |
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| They slow the reuptake process at serotonin synapses |
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| Yields rapid theraputic gains in treatment of depression and is an antidepressant (SSRI) |
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| Drugs are used to control mood swings in patients with bipolar mood disorders. (Like Lithium) |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| a biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions. (Schizophrenic patients) |
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| Transcranial Magentic Stimulation (TMS) |
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| A technique that permits scientists to temporarily enhance or depress activity in a specific area of the brain. (For Depression) |
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| Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) |
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| A thin electrode is surgically implanted in the brain and connected to an implanted pulse generator so that various electrical currents can be delivered to brain tissue adjacent to the electrode. (Parkinson's dieases, tardive dyskinesia, and seizure disorders) |
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| Although not a formal school of thought, is the use of a combination of approaches or theoretical orientations. It is used by most therapists. Individuals may benefit from a variety of techniques |
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| Psychologists who helps clients overcome phobias use traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy methods thatuse virtual reality, such as 3D computer graphics, that stimulate environments in the real world to help clients confront their fears. |
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| Used to treat severe schizophrenia. It is also used to reduce the risk of suicidal behavior in people with schizophrenia. (Antipsychotic medication) |
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| A class of drugs primarily used for treating anxiety. It is a psychoactive drugs. [It treats anxiety, insomnia, agitation, seizures, muscle spasms, and alcohol withdrawl] |
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| A surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. [it treats schizophrenia, manic depresson, and bipolar disoders. This technique is not used anymore |
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| Rational Emotional Therapy (RET) |
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| (Also called rational emotive behavioral therapy) established by Albert Ellis, it focused on helping clients change irrational beliefs by helping people alter illogical beliefs and negative thinking patterns in order to overcome psychological problems |
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| The branch of psychology that focues on person problems not classified as serious mental disorders, such as academis, social or vocational difficulties of students |
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| The cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease or condition |
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