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- Psychotherapy
- Biomedical Therapy
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| An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties |
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| Prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patients nervious system. |
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| An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. |
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| Sigmund Freud:patients free associations and therapists interpretations of them releases repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain self in-sight. |
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| The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. |
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| The analysts noting suppossed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. |
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| The patients transfer to the analst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent) |
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| A humanistic therapy, Carl Rogers, when therapists use techniques such as active listening with an empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth. |
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| Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates and clarifies. |
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| Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. |
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Counter Conditioning
(Behavior Therapy) |
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| A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors. |
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| Exposing people to things they fear or aviod. |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| When patient is put in a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli, (commonly used to treat phobias). |
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| Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy |
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| Same as exposure but with simulations. |
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| Associates an unwanted state with an unwanted behavior (nausea with alcohol). |
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| When people earn a token for exhibitng desired behaviors and can later exchange tokens for priveledges or treats. |
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| Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting. |
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| Therapy with multiple clients, not as much one on one attention but sense of support, advice, togetherness. |
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| Therapies not proven to work (herbal medicine, massage, spiritual healing), people think they help but not proven. |
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| People are given a box of light to counteract the dark, overcast days of winter, meant to relieve winter time depression. |
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| Physically changing the brains functioning by altering its chemistry with drugs |
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| the study of the effects of drugs on mood and behavior. |
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- Electroconvulsive therapy (E.C.T.)
- Repetitive transranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- Psychosurgery
- Lobotomy
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (E.C.T.) |
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| A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of anesthetized patient. |
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Repetitive Tranzcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
(Alternative to ECT) |
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| The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. |
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| Surgery that removes or destroy brain issue in an effort to change behavior. |
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| A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain. |
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