Mental Health Jobs
Psychoanalysis
Behavioral Therapy
Group Therapy
Other Methods
100
deal mostly with problems not fitting into the formal classifications of mental disturbances
What is Counseling Psychologists
100
The process of saying whatever comes to mind; uncovers the unconscious in psychoanalysis
What is free association
100
A behavioral technique in which the therapist step by step increases the patient’s anxiety and counters it with relaxation in a graduated sequence
What is systematic desensitization
100
Cheaper for clients and people can learn they are not alone
What is two benefits of group therapy
100
The use of drugs to relieve psychological disturbance
What is chemotherapy
200
Perform deal with emotional disturbances of any kind; may work with classified mental patients
What is Clinical Psychologists
200
The process in which the patient transfers emotional conflicts to earlier years onto the therapist
What is transference
200
A behavioral technique in which unpleasantness is associated with acts that are to be avoided.
What is aversive conditioning
200
Type of group therapy in which people are forced to share their inner conflicts and emotions
What is encounter therapy
200
Therapy in which an electrical shock is sent through the brain to try to reduce symptoms of mental disturbance
What is electroconvulsive therapy
300
Medical doctors with special training in mental disorders
What is Psychiatrists
300
Therapy that emphasizes the individual’s own ability to heal himself or herself with some assistance
What is humanistic therapy
300
A behavioral technique in which rewards for desired acts are accumulated through tokens, which represent a form of money
What is token economy
300
Effective in therapy because it reduces the financial burden on the patient
What is higher education (college degree, etc.)
300
Reason that electroconvulsive therapy is controversial
What is it can lead to brain damage
400
Mental health workers with a degree in social work; help patients and families deal with problems
What is psychiatric social workers
400
Roger’s humanistic approach; reflects belief that the client and therapist are partners in therapy
What is client centered therapy
400
Treatment centering on getting emotions under control by using reason; Ellis’s term
What is rational emotive therapy
400
Effective in therapy because there is someone in their life who can support the patient through the process
What is marriage
400
Surgery that destroys part of the brain to make the patient calmer, freer of symptoms.
What is psychosurgery
500
Registered nurses with special education in psychiatric medicine
What is psychiatric nurses
500
A principle of humanistic therapy in which the client’s feelings and thoughts are accepted for whatever they are
What is unconditional positive regard
500
the opinions we form of ourselves by listening to our own inner voice; Ellis’s term
What is internalized sentences
500
Effective in therapy because it provides income and a meaning to life
What is employment
500
Can cause person to have to live life with a stigma that they are incapable of ever living normally
What is labeling