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Psychoanalysis
Humanistic Therapies
Behavior Therapies
Biomedical Approach
Miscellaneous
100
a psychotherapeutic technique created by Sigmund Freud, where the goal of the treatment is to use the patients' childhood and the subconscious to find a cause for current psychological difficulties?
what is psychoanalysis
100
the psychologist that developed client-centered therapy?
who is Carl Rogers
100
a psychotherapeutic technique that aims to replace unwanted learned behaviors with constructive behaviors?
what is behavior therapy
100
the study of drug effects on mind and behavior?
what is psychopharmacology
100
a type of psychotherapy aimed to heal broken relationships by improving communication and exploring each's role within the group?
what is family therapy
200
an action where the patient will transfer emotions linked with other relationships onto the analyst?
what is transference
200
a technique where the therapist will echo, restate, and clarify when speaking with a patient?
what is active listening
200
a behavioral technique that treats anxieties by exposing people to things they fear or avoid?
what is exposure therapy
200

psychosurgical procedure that cuts the nerves connecting the frontal lobe to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients.

what is a lobotomy

200
a type of psychotherapy that helps patient's experience healthier thinking by reversing self-blame?
what is cognitive therapy
300
when a patient experiences a block in the flow of free association, such as not sharing information with the therapist?
what is resistance
300
a technique used in humanistic therapy where the therapist keeps a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude when speaking with patients?
what is unconditional positive regard
300
a behavior technique where the patient earns some type of token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the token for some type of treat?
what is token economy
300

a biomedical therapy that send electrical currents through the brain in order to treat severely depressed patients?

What is an electroconvulsive therapy or ECT?

300

This form of psychology emphasizes changing the way people think and feel about an isssue.

What is Cognitive Therapy?

400
a type of treatment approach that includes interactions between a therapist and patient such as with psychoanalysis?
what is the psychotherapeutic approach
400
a humanistic therapy that uses techniques such as active listening, where the therapist will listen without judging or interpreting?
what is client-centered therapy
400
a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior?
what is aversion therapy
400

rTMSa is a form of therapy that uses this to stimulate or suppress brain activity.

What is magnetic energy?

400
a type of disorder generally used to treat seasonal affective disorder?
what is light exposure therapy
500
a type of therapy derived from the psychoanalytic approach that focuses on recurring themes in relationships, and seeks to enhance self-insight?
what is psychodynamic therapy
500
a variety of therapies such as humanistic or psychoanalysis where the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses is increased to improve psychological functioning?
what is insight therapies
500
a type of exposure therapy generally used to treat phobias where the exposure of an unwanted stimulus is gradually increased?
what is Systematic Desensitization
500

Tardive dyskinesia is a possible side effect of long-term use of these medications.  

What are antipsychotics?

500
the most commonly-used treatment method today that uses techniques from various types of therapy?
what is the eclectic approach