Key Terms
Section 1 & 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
100
This is a drug used to treat people with bipolar disorder
What is lithium?
100
Patients develop a relationship with their therapist that is similar to one they had or have with an important person in their lives (especially a parent)
What is transference?
100
Person-centered therapy is practiced widely by these people
What is school and college counselors?
100
Cognitive therapy is ineffective in dealing with this disorder
What is schizophrenia or severe psychological disorders?
100
Use of electric current through the brain to treat psychological disorders
What is electroconvulsive therapy or ECT?
200
Patient's hesitancy or unwillingness to discuss issues raised during free association
What is resistance?
200
Name two techniques used in psychoanalysis
What is free association, dream analysis, and transference?
200
Humanistic therapy assumes this about most people
What is that most people are basically good and have a natural tendency to strive for self-actualization?
200
Operant conditioning is based on this assumption
What is the assumption that behavior that is reinforced tends to be repeated?
300
When a therapist repeats, rephrases, and asks for clarification of the statements made by a patient
What is active listening?
300
Name two ways that brief psychoanalysis differs from traditional psychoanalysis
What is it targets a specific problem rather than the entire personality, the duration of the treatment, its availability to a wide range of people?
300
This is the goal of active listening
What is to make sure the client feels heard and understood?
300
Beck's cognitive theory focuses on illogical thought processes. Name all three of them.
What is arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, and overgeneralization?
300
Drugs prescribed for people suffering from major depression, panic disorders, and eating disorders
What are antidepressant drugs?
400
Brain surgery used to treat people with severe psychological disorders
What is a prefrontal lobotomy?
400
Give two advantages that group therapy has over individual therapy
What is it helps people realize they're not alone, gives them a support group, gives them hope when others succeed in therapy, it's more affordable?
400
The main goal of humanistic therapy
What is to help people reach their full potential?
400
Replacing a positive response to a stimulus with a negative one.
What is aversive conditioning?
400
Drugs prescribed to help people reduce the stress due to temporary life circumstances and control symptoms of anxiety disorders
What are antianxiety drugs?
500
Treatment method involving verbal interactions between therapist and client. This is also called the "_______ cure"
What is psychotherapy and the talking cure?
500
Give three questions a person should ask when choosing a therapist
What field is the therapist in? What degree do they hold? What are their plans for the duration of treatment? How much will treatment cost? Are they licensed by the state?
500
Tell three disorders that Humanistic therapy works best for
What is anxiety, depression or relationship problems?
500
Behavior therapy works best for these disorders (name three) and it is ineffective for these disorders (name two)
What are phobias, PTSD and compulsions (works best for) and schizophrenia and depression (is ineffective in treating)?
500
Drugs prescribed to control the symptoms of schizophrenia
What are antipsychotic drugs?