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| the treatment of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems through the use of psychological techniques designed to encourage understanding of problems and modify troubling feelings, behaviors, or relationships. ( The famous couch) |
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| The use of medications, electroconvulsive therapy, or other medical treatments to treat the symptoms associated with psychological disorders. |
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| a type of psychotherapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts. |
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| a technique used in psychoanalysis in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts feelings and mental images as they come to mind, asa way of revealing unconscious thoughts and emotions |
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| in psychoanalysis the patients unconscious attempts to block the revelation of repressed memories and conflicts |
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| a technique used in psychoanalysis in which the content of dreams is analyzed for disguised or symbolic wishes, meanings and motivations |
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| a carefully timed explanation of the patients dreams, free associations, or behaviors to facilitate the recognition of unconscious conflicts or motivations |
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| the process by which emotions and desires originally associated with a significant person in the patients life, such as a parent, are unconsciously transfered to the psychoanalyst |
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| a type of psychotherapy that focuses on directly changing maladaptive behavior patterns by using basic learning principles and techniques: also called behavior modification. |
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| a behavior therapy technique based on classical conditioning that involves modifying behavior by conditioning a new response that is incompatible with the previously learned response |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| a type of behavior therapy in which phobic responses are reduced by pairing relaxation with a series of mental images or real-life situations that the person finds progressively more fear provoking: based on principle of counterconditioning. |
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| a behavior therapy technique used to treat nighttime bed wetting by conditioning arousal from sleep in response to bodily signals of a full bladder |
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| a relatively ineffective type of behavior therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an aversive stimulus with the occurrence of undesirable behaviors of thought. |
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| a form of behavior therapy in which the therapeutic environment is structured to reward desired behaviors with tokens or pints that may eventually be exchanged for tangible rewards |
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| a group of psychotherapies based on the assumption that psychological problems are due to maladaptive patterns of thinking; treatment techniques focus on recognizing and altering these unhealthy thinking patterns. |
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| rational-emotive therapies (RET) |
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| a type of cognitive therapy, developed by psychologist Albert Ellis, that focuses on changing the clients irrational beliefs. |
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| developed by Aaron T. Beck, that focuses on changing the clients unrealistic beliefs. |
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| cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) |
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| Therapy that integrated cognitive and behavioral techniques and that is based on the assumption that thoughts, moods,and behaviors are interrelated. |
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| one or more therapists working simultaneously with a small group of clients. |
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| based on the assumption that a family is a system and that treats the family as a unit |
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| behavioral therapy for phobias, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or related anxiety disorders in which the person is repeatedly exposed to the disturbing object or situation under controlled conditions. |
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| the pragmatic and integrated use of techniques from different psychotherapies |
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| drugs that alter mental functions, alleviate psychological symptoms, and are used to treat psychological or mental disorders |
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| antipsychotic medications |
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| prescription drugs that are used to reduce psychotic symptoms; frequently used in the treatment of schizophrenia; also called neuroleptics. |
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| atypical antipsychotic medications |
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| newer antipsychotic medications that in contrast to the early antipsychotic drugs, block dopamine receptors in brain regions associated with psychotic symptoms rather than more globally throughout the brain, resulting in fewer side effects |
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| prescription drugs that are used to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety |
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| naturally occurring substance that is used in the treatment of bipolar disorder |
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| antidepressant medications |
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| prescription drugs that are used to reduce the symptoms associated with depression |
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| selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors |
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| class of antidepressant medications that increase the availability of serotonin in the brain and cause fewer side effects than earlier antidepressants; they include Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft |
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| electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
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| the biomedical therapy used primarily in the treatment of depression that involves electrically inducing a brief brain seizure; also called electroshock therapy. |
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