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psychologists create a safe environment in which to “expose” individuals to the things they fear and avoid
a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
in which researchers randomly assign people on a waiting list to therapy or to no therapy
What is randomized control trial?
What is reduce the # of child and adolescent bipolar diagnoses
What is cognitive therapy?
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat specific phobias.
What is systematic desensitization
therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction
What is group therapy?
a group of research participants who receive the same intervention or treatment as those in the experimental group but at a later time.
a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problem
What is therapeutic alliance?
Near daily distress because of fatigue, loss of energy, thoughts of death and suicide, and the inability to function at work are most likely to be associated with...
What is major depressive disorder?
behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.
What is counterconditioning?
therapy that treats people in the context of their family system.Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
What is family therapy?
an individual's capacity to choose what they pay attention to and what they ignore
What is attention control?
Dr. Carlson is a client-centered therapist. He is likely to emphasize the importance of:
What is creating an environment that provides unconditional posiitve regard
What is learned helplessness?
associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
What is aversive studying?
a statistical procedure for analyzing the results of multiple studies to reach an overall conclusion
What is meta-analysis?
clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
What is evidence based practice?
In psychoanalysis, transference refers to the"
What is patent unconsciously responding to the therapist as though the therapist were a significant person in the patient's life
To help Kacie reduce her fear of dogs, a therapist encourages him to physically relax and imagine that he is walking toward a friendly and harmless little dog. The therapists technique BEST illustrates:
What is systematic desensitization?
therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reaction
What is cognitive therapy?
the tendency of results that are extreme by chance on first measurement—i.e. extremely higher or lower than average—to move closer to the average when measured a second time
What is regression to the mean?
the therapeutic relationship, motivation, corrective experiencing, insight, and self‑efficacy
What are common factors
A ___ disorder is a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition regulation or behavior
What is psychological?
____ emphasized the importance of active listening in. the process of psychotherapy.