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| an interaction between a therapist and someone suffering from a psychological problem, with the goal of providing support or relief from the problem |
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| treatment that draws on techniques from different forms of therapy, depending on the client and the problem |
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| psychodynamic psychotherapies |
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| a general approach to treatment that explores childhood events and encourages individuals to develop insight into their psychological problems |
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| a reluctance to cooperate with treatment for fear of confronting unpleasant unconscious material |
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| an event that occurs in psychoanalysis when the analyst begins to assume a major significance in the client's life and the client reacts to the analyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies |
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| interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) |
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| a form of psychotherapy that focuses on helping clients improve current relationships |
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| a type of therapy that assumes that disordered behavior is learned and that symptom relief is achieved through changing overt maladaptive behaviors into more constructive behaviors |
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| a form of behavior therapy in which clients are given "tokens" for desired behaviors, which they can later trade for rewards |
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| an approach to treatment that involves confronting an emotion-arousing stimulus directly and repeatedly, ultimately leading to a decrease in the emotional response |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| a procedure in which a client relaxes all the muscles of his body while imagining being in increasingly frightening situations |
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| a form of psychotherapy that involves helping a client identify and correct any distorted thinking about self, others, or the world |
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| a therapeutic approach that teaches clients to question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and positive beliefs |
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| a form of cognitive therapy that teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment; to be aware of his thoughts, feelings, and sensations; and to detect symptoms before they become a problem |
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| cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) |
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| a blend of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic strategies |
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| an approach to therapy that assumes all individuals have a tendency toward growth and that this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist |
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| an existential approach to treatment with the goal of helping the client become aware of his thoughts, behaviors, experiences, and feelings and to "own" or take responsibility for them |
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| therapy in which multiple participants (who often do not know one another at the beginning) work on their individual problems in a group atmosphere |
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| medications that are used to treat schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders |
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| the study of drug effects on psychological states and symptoms |
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| drugs that help reduce a person's experience of fear or anxiety |
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| a class of drugs tat help lift people's mood |
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| electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
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| a treatment that involves inducing a mild seizure by delivering an electrical shock to the brain |
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| transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) |
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| a treatment that involves placing a powerful pulsed magnet over a person's scalp, which alters neuronal activity in the brain |
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| surgical destruction of specific brain areas |
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| an inert substance or procedure that has been applied with the explanation that a healing response will be produced |
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| a disorder or symptom that occurs as a result of a medical or psychotherapeutic treatment |
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