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therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
Behavior Therapy.
a technique used in cognitive therapy and cognitive behavior therapy to help the client identify their self-defeating beliefs or cognitive distortions, refute them, and then modify them so that they are adaptive and reasonable.
Cognitive Restructuring
A chemical substance that alters the brain, causing changes in perceptions and moods
Psychoactive drug.
A psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
Lobotomy.
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction
Group Therapy.
behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imaginary or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid.
Exposure Therapy.
A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
Clinical Psychology.
Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.
Antianxiety drugs.
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.
Counterconditioning.
Arranges the patient's salient phobic cues (obtained from an assessment process such as the Fear Survey Schedule) in a stepwise fashion, ranking the corresponding phobic responses from least to most intense.
A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy -changing behavior.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy.
A set of standards and principles of professional conduct, such as the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct of the American Psychological Association
Code of ethics/ethical principles.
Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Antidepressant drugs.
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
Psychosurgery.
A confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions
Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT).
A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.
Virtual reality exposure therapy.
A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problem.
Therapeutic Alliance.
An element of the alkali metal group whose salts are used in psychopharmacotherapy as mood stabilizers.
Lithium.
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
Electroconvulsive therapy.
The extension of B. F. Skinner’s behavioral principles (i.e., operant conditioning) to practical settings. Variations of applied behavior analysis may be used clinically (in the form of behavior modification or behavior therapy) as treatment for abnormal or problematic behaviors
Applied behavior analysis (ABA).
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior, such as drinking alcohol.
Aversion Therapy.
A set of three beliefs thought to characterize major depressive episodes. These are negative beliefs about the self, the world, and the future.
Cognitive Triad.
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder.
Antipsychotic drugs.
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Principle of conduct for psychotherapists to do no harm.
Nonmaleficence.