Therapy

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Therapy

• Chapter 17

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Psychotherapy

• And emotionally charged, and fighting interaction
  between a trained therapist and someone who
  suffers from psychological difficulties.

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Biomedical therapy

• Prescribe medication or medical procedures that
  are directly on the patients nervous system.

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Eclectic approach

• An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on
  the client problems, uses techniques from various
  forms of therapy.

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Psychoanalysis

• Sigmund Freud
• Free association
• Resistances
• Dreams
• Transferences
• An interpretation by a trained professional
  helping a patient release their regressed
  feelings.

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Resistance

• In psychoanalysis, the blocking from
  consciousness of anxiety laden material.

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Interpretation

• In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting the
  supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other
  significant behaviors and events in order to
  promote in sight.

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Transference

• In psychoanalysis, the patients transferred to
  the analyst of emotions linked with other
  relationships.

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Face-to-face therapy

• Missed a therapy session, the catch is
  disappeared. But the influence of psychoanalysis
  may not have, especially if the therapist probes
  for the origin of the patients symptoms by
  seeking information from the patients childhood.

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Client centered therapy

• A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers,
  in which the therapist uses techniques such as
  active listening within a genuine, accepting,
  empathetic environment to facilitate clients
  growth.
• Also called person centered therapy.

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Active listening

• Empathetic listening in which the listener
  echoes, restates, and clarifies.

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Behavior therapy

• Therapy that applies learning principles to the
  elimination of unwanted behaviors.

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Counterconditioning

• A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new
  responses to stimuli that triggers unwanted
  behavior based on classical conditioning.
• This can include exposure therapy and aversive
  conditioning.

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Exposure therapies

• Behavioral techniques, such as systematic
  desensitization, that treats (in imagination or
  actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.

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Systematic desensitization

• A type of counter conditioning that associates a
  pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing
  anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to
  treat phobias

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

• And the anxiety treatment that progressively
  exposes people to stimulations of their greatest
  fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or
  public speaking.

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Aversive conditioning

• A type of counter conditioning that associates
  and unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an
  unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).

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Token economy

• And operant conditioning procedure which people
  earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a
  desired behavior and can later exchange the
  tokens for various privileges or treats.

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Cognitive therapy

• Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive
  ways of thinking and acting based on the
  assumption that thoughts intervene between events
  and their emotional reactions.

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Cognitive behavior therapy

• A popular integrated therapy that combines
  cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating
  thinking) with behavior therapy (changing
  behavior).

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Family therapy

• Therapy that treats the family as a system.
• Views an individuals unwanted behavior as an
  influence by or directed at other family members
  attempts to guide family members toward positive
  relationships and improve communication.

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Meta-analysis

• A procedure for statistically combining the
  results of many different research studies.

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Tardive Dyskinesia

• involuntary movements of the facial muscles,
  tong, and limbs a possible nerve toxic side
  effects of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs
  that target D2 dopamine receptors.

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Electroconvulsive therapy ECT

• A biomedical therapy for severely depressed
  patients in which a brief electric current is
  sent to the brain of an anesthetized patient

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

• The application of repeated polls as of magnetic
  energy to the brain used to stimulate or
  suppress brain activity.

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psychosurgery

• Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in
  an effort to change behavior.

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Lobotomy

• A now rare psycho surgical procedure once used
  to, uncontrollably emotional violent patients.
  The procedure cut the nerves that connected the
  final lobes of the emotion controlling centers of
  the brain.