The belief that people with psychological problems can change- can learn more adaptive ways of perceiving, evaluating, and behaving
What is psychotherapy?
100
In this type of therapy, the client learns new skills by imitating another person, such as a parent or therapist, who performs the behavior to be acquired.
What is modeling?
100
These therapies are based on the assumption that people have both the freedom and the responsibility to control their own behavior.
What are humanistic-experiential therapies?
100
Due to large numbers of couples seeking help with troubled relationships, this type of therapy is a growing field.
What is couple counseling?
100
Prefrontal lobotomy is an example of this type of treatment.
What is neurosurgery?
200
Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric social workers
Who administers psychological treatment in mental hospitals?
200
During this type of therapy, the patient/client is confronted with the fear-producing stimulus in a therapeutic manner.
What is exposure therapy?
200
This therapy focuses on the natural power if the organism to heal itself.
What is client-centered therapy?
200
This therapy tries to change the organization of a family so the family members will behave more supportively and less pathogenically toward each other.
What is structural family therapy?
200
This is a movement abnormality that is a delayed result of taking antipsychotic medications.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
300
This evolves out of what both client and therapist bring to the therapeutic situation.
What is the therapeutic relationship?
300
An example of this therapy is: drugs that induce nausea or vomiting when a person who has taken this drug ingests alcohol
What is aversion therapy?
300
This therapy is most often used in the areas of substance abuse and addiction.
What is motivational interviewing?
300
This therapy focuses on acceptance, including strategies that help each member come to terms with and accept some of the limitations of his/her partner.
What is integrative behavioral couple therapy?
300
The therapeutic benefit of these derives from their ability to alleviate or reduce the intensity of delusions and hallucinations.
What are antipsychotic drugs?
400
When something does what it is supposed to do (ex. if a drug cures or relieves some target condition)
What is efficacy?
400
This therapy attempts to change a client's maladaptive thought processes, on which maladaptive emotional responses, and thus behavior, are presumed to depend.
What is rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)?
400
This person started psychoanalytic therapy.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
This therapy has been successful in reducing relapse rates in patients with schizophrenia and mood disorders.
What is family therapy?
400
Antidepressants work by increasing the availability of these.
What are serotonin and norepinephrine?
500
Used to minimize the variability in patients' clinical outcomes that might result from characteristics of the therapist themselves
What are manualized therapies?
500
This therapy is now the treatment of choice for bulimia.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
500
During this, people carry over, and often unconsciously apply to their therapist, attitudes and feelings that they had in the past.
What is transference?
500
This word describes psychotherapists who try to borrow and combine concepts and techniques from various schools, depending on what seems best for the individual case.
What is "eclectic"?
500
A number of maladaptive lawsuits have been brought against psychiatrists who use this form of treatment.