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Youths usually participate in this type of therapy because it makes them feel less alone in their troubles, and it enables the counselor to assist more people at a lower cost.
What is group therapy?
100
Jenny is suffering from manic depressive swings of bipolar disorder, she is administered a simple remedy, that alleviates the severity of her mood swings.
What is salt lithium?
100
The results of many studies that are compiled completely by a certain technique . This procedure gives the bottom line results of lots of studies.
What is meta-analysis?
100
This type of classical conditioning technique pairs the trigger stimulus with a new response that is incompatible with fear.
What is counter conditioning?
100
Sarah is normally a happy person, but when it gets cloudy she automatically becomes very depressed. Her therapist says she has this disorder.
What is seasonal affective disorder?
200
This is a treatment to help Tom to overcome his phobia of heights. He peers out a virtual window and visualize himself climbing to various heights.
What is visual reality exposure therapy?
200
John has been feeling depressed lately, and he doesn't feel like going out. His friends call him multiple times but he is too lazy to respond. His psychologist decides to give him a drug.
What is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssri) or Prozac?
200
During free association, the patient might hint at anxiety during pauses, breaks or trying to change the subject. These blocks in the flow indicate the underlying problem the patients might be feeling.
What is resistance?
200
Jacob is suffering from alcoholism, his psychologist decides to place a drug inside his drinks that causes him to feel nauseous, after 4 months he has developed a dislike for alcohol.
What is aversive conditioning?
200
Nathan has been seeing his therapist for over a year. One day, he tells his therapist that he's in love with him.
What is transference?
300
A widely used humanistic technique that was created by Carl Rogers. The therapist focuses on the person's conscious self perceptions rather than on the therapist's own interpretations.
What is client centered therapy?
300
In 1930s, Moniz developed this psychosurgical operation. He cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes with the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain to calm uncontrollably emotional and violent patients.
-What is lobotomy?
300
The study that drugs that affect the mind and behavior.
What is psychopharmacology?
300
Brenda has been terrified of llamas her whole life. She consults a psychologist who recommends that getting rid of this phobia is to relax and slowly reach out and to touch llamas until she no longer fears them.
What is exposure therapy?
300
A teacher gives students stickers for each completed homework assignment. For every 10 stickers a student can get a candy bar.
What is a token economy?
400
Nancy held a self defeating outlook in life because she kept failing her tests, she lost her job and she lost ten dollars. Her therapist using a certain type of therapy, told her that during these stressful situations she should imagine alternatives to these negative thoughts. For example, the reason why she failed her tests was because the teacher was not competent enough to teach effectively.
What is cognitive therapy?
400
Michael has been hearing voices and believes that he is Hitler's uncle. His doctor decides to perform surgery on his brain. He doesn't hear voices anymore and realizes that he isn't Hitler's uncle.
-What is psychosurgery?
400
This is a therapy influenced by Freud. The therapist aims to help the patients gain insight into the roots of their difficulties. It focuses primarily on current relationships and on helping people improve their relationship skills.
What is interpersonal psychotherapy?
400
It is used in mental institutions when patients eating, talking coherently, they will be rewarded and move to a better living quarter.
What is token economy?
400
A therapist says that he bases his therapeutic techniques on the ideologies of Carl Rogers and that he aims to boost his patients grow in self-awareness and acceptance. He is this type of psychologist.
What is Humanistic?
500
Tom who is suffering from obsessive compulsive behaviors learned to relabel his compulsive thoughts through a therapy that encouraged its patients to not give into harmful urges i.e. washing hands again, and to tell themselves that they are in fact having a compulsive urge. This helped shift the attention and engages the brain in something else, preventing more harmful urges to the patient.
What is cognitive-behavior therapy?
500
A procedure that sends painless magnetic field through the skull to the cortical surface,where pulses can be used to stimulate or dampen activity in various areas.
What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation(rTMS)?
500
This was first introduced in 1938, the wide-awake patient was strapped to a table and jolted with 100 volts of electricity to the brain, producing racking convulsion and brief unconsciousness.
What is electroconvulsive therapy(ECT)?
500
This type of therapy has achieved favorable results with specific behavior problems such as phobias, compulsions, marital problems, and sexual disorders.
What is behavior conditioning therapy?
500
A therapist considers using psychoanalysis with his patient. However, the patient lacks the time and money needed. The therapist might start considering using this other Freudian-based perspective.
What is psychodynamic?