General info.
The approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
What is the eclectic approach?
Often used to treat schizophrenia and other thought disorders.
What are antipsychotic drugs?
Therapy that focuses on one's actions towards their family members.
What is family therapy?
The founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
An exposure therapy that slowly has the patient become more accustomed to their fears.
What is systematic desensitization?
Focuses on themes from important relationships and childhood experiences.
What is the psychodynamic approach?
Drugs that increase the amount of neurotransmitters available by acting as agonists in their receptors.
What are antidepressants?
Therapy conducted with multiple people afflicted by certain ailments together.
Analyzing the meaning of one's dreams and thoughts to promote insight.
What is interpretation?
A type of conditioning which associates negative effects with unwanted behaviors.
What is aversive conditioning?
Teachings that alter patient's states of mind and their perspectives on certain events and behaviors.
What is cognitive therapy?
Often used as a mood stabilizer for those affected by bipolar disorder.
What is lithium?
A treatment for anxiety that, by using electric stimulation, exposes patients to their greatest fears.
What is virtual reality exposure?
The re-direction of emotions and feelings onto others close to the patient.
What is transference?
The individual considered the father of behaviorism.
Who is John Watson?
The bond created between a therapist and patient in the hope to overcome their plight.
What is therapeutic alliance?
Studies in this field are often focused on the effects of medications on the mind and how it works.
What is psychopharmacology?
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
The unconscious blocking of anxiety causing memories.
What is resistance?
A child being awarded a golden star for exemplary behavior.
What is A token economy?
This psychologist reverses the catastrophic proclamations depressed patients have about their lives.
Who is Aaron Beck?
Drugs that increase the amount of neurotransmitters available by acting as agonists in their receptors.
What are antidepressants?
A psychologist confronting a patient about a belief that they are completely irrelevant and useless is using this therapy type.
What is rational-behavior therapy?
A psychologist echoes, re-states, and clarifies a patient's woes and expressions.
What is active listening?
Pairs a trigger stimulus with a new response incompatible with fear.