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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2012

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Psychotherapy
Definition
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a therapist and someone needing help
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
Patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transeferences-with therapy help- release repressing feelings, allwoing the patient to gain self-insight.
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Psychodynamic therapy
Definition
Views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.
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Transference
Definition
The patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationship.
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Client-centered therapy
Definition
The therapist uses techniques such as active listening, within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client's growth.
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Active listening
Definition
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.
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Behavior therapy
Definition
Extinction of fear and relearning
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Cognitive therapy
Definition
Healthier thinking and self talk
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Psychopharmacology
Definition
The study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Definition
A biomedical therapy for depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
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Carl Rogers
Definition
-Client-centered therapy
-Active listening
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
-Psychoanalysis
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Aaron Beck
Definition
- father of cognitive therapy,
- treatment of clinical depression
-self-report measures of depression and anxiety including Beck Depression Inventory (BDI),[1][2] Beck Hopelessness Scale,[3] Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Beck Youth Inventories.
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Thorazine
Definition
-works on a variety of receptors in the central nervous system
-Dampen responses to irrelevant stimuli
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Clozapine
Definition
-treatment of schizophrenia
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Xanex
Definition
-Control anxiety and agitation
-Depress central nervous system
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Prozac
Definition
-treatment of major depression , obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, panic disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
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Lithium carbonate
Definition
-Mood stabilizer
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