The therapy developed by Freud that seeks to bring unconscious conflicts into consciousness.
What is Psychoanalysis
100
Goal:To extinguish unwanted behavior and replace it with more adaptive behavior.
What is the goal of Behavior therapy
100
The things people say to themselves when they interpret events.
What is Self-talk
100
A therapy involving physiological interventions to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders.
What is Biomedical Therapy
100
A treatment method in which multiple people meet together to work toward therapeutic goals.
What is Group Therapy
200
A technique in which the patient says whatever comes to mind.
What is Free Association
200
It is an operant condition technique in which positive behaviors are rewarded with secondary reinforcers, which can eventually be exchanged for extrinsic rewards.
What is Token Economy
200
An innate tendency toward growth that results in the full realization of a person’s potential.
What is Self-actualization
200
A last resort to treat severely depressed patients.
Antidepressants- Drugs that elevate mood by making monoamine neurotransmitters including serotonin, norepinephrine, and/or dopamine more available at the synapse to stimulate postsynaptic neurons.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy
200
A therapy which aims to change maladaptive family interactions.
What is Family Therapy
300
A behavior in which the client responds to the analyst as though he or she is a significant person in the client’s emotional life
What is Transference
300
A therapy founded on the idea that an anxiety response is inhibited by an incompatible relaxation response.
What is Systematic Desensitization
300
A psychotherapy that emphasizes the client’s natural tendency to become healthy and productive.
What is Client-centered Therapy
300
Drugs that are helpful in the treatment of PTSD, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorders. Ex: Valium, Librium, & Xanax
What are Antianxiety/Tranqulizers/Anxiolytics
300
Example: Alcoholics Anonymous
What is an example of a Self-help Group
400
The release of emotional tension after remembering or reliving an emotionally charged experience from the past.
What is Catharsis
400
Therapy that trains the client to associate physical or psychological discomfort with behaviors, thoughts, or situations, he/she wants to stop or avoid.
What is Aversive Conditioning
400
The process in cognitive therapy by which the therapist and client work to change destructive ways of thinking.
What is Cognitive Restructuring
400
Chemicals that affect the NS and cause a change in behavior, mental processes, and conscious experience.
What are Psychoactive Drugs
400
An approach in which the therapist combines techniques from various theories to find the appropriate treatment for the client.
What is an Eclectic Approach
500
Example: A therapist that finds herself feeling maternal feelings towards a client that reminds her of her daughter that left for college.
What is Counter-transference
500
An operant conditioning technique the client selects a goal, and with each step toward it he/she receives a small reward until the goal is reached.
What is Behavior Modification
500
Therapy that works to change not only destructive thoughts and beliefs but the associated beliefs as well.
What is Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
500
A side effect that may result from neuroleptics such as Thorazine, Haldol, and Clozaril.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia
500
The systematic statistical method for synthesizing the results of numerous research studies dealing with the same variables.