Module 72 Vocab
A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client
What is therapeutic alliance?
A manipulation of soft body tissues to enhance an individual's well-being or health
What is Massage Therapy?
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
What is behavior therapy?
The ability to cope with stress and recover from adversity
What is resilience?
Some people spend time each morning exposed to intense light that mimics natural outdoor light to counteract winter depression
What is Light Exposure Therapy?
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking
What is Cognitive Therapy?
Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
What is evidence-based practice?
This therapy achieved favorable results with specific behavior problems such as phobias and bed-wetting
What is Behavioral Conditioning Therapy?
Widely practiced integrative therapy that combined cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
What is Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
A procedure for statistically combining results of many different research studies
What is Meta-analysis?
This therapy involves waving a finger in front of people's eyes while they are thinking about traumatic scenes in attempt to reprocess previously frozen memories. Some argue that eye movements serve to relax or distract patients.
What is EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)?
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals
What is Group Therapy?
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average
What is regression toward the mean?
Helps treat depression and anxiety
The creator of rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
Who is Albert Ellis?