use of psychological techniques to treat personality and behavior disorders
What is Psycotherapy
100
A behavior therapy in which the person learns desired behaviors by watching others perform those behaviors
What is Modeling
100
Psychotherapies that emphasize changing people's perceptions of their life situation as a wat of modifying their behavior
What is Cognitive therapies
100
Type of psychotherapy in which people meet regularly to interact and help one another achieve insight into their feelings and behavior
What is Group Therapy
100
Group of approaches including medication, electroconsulvise therapy, and psychosurgery
What is Biological Treatment
200
A psychoanalytic technique that encourages the client to talk without inhibition about whatever thoughts of fantasies come to mind
What is Free Association
200
Form of operant conditioning therapy in which the client and therapist set behavioral goals and agree on reinforcements the person will receive upon reaching those goals
What is Behavior Contracting
200
A type of cognitive therapy that trains people to cope with stressful situations by learning a more useful pattern of self-talk
What is Stress-Inoculation therapy
200
Form of group therapy that partly sees the family as responsible for the individual's problems. Seeks to change family members behaviors to benefit the family and the individual
What is Family Therapy
200
Used to treat very severe psychological disorders, usually schizophrenia
What are Antipsychotic Drugs
300
Non directional form of therapy developed by Carl Rogers that calls for the unconditional positive regard of the client by the therapist with the goal of helping the client become fully functioning
What is Client - Centered Therapy
300
An operant conditioning therapy in which clients earn tokens (reinforcers) for desired behaviors and exchange them for privileges or desired items
What is Token Economy
300
A directive cognitive therapy based on the idea that people's psychological distress is caused by irrational and self defeating beliefs and that the therapist's job is to challenge such dysfunctional beliefs
What is Rational Emotive Therapy RET
300
Therapy intended to help troubled partners improve their problems of communication and interactions
What is Couple Therapy
300
Increases the concentration of the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain. (SSRI's Ex, Elavil)
What are Antidepressant Drugs
400
An insight therapy that emphasizes the wholeness of the personaliyt and attempts to reawaken people to their emotions ad sensations in the here and now
What is Gestalt Therapy
400
A behavioral technique for reducing a persons fear and anxiety by gradually associating a new response (relaxation) with stimuli that have been causing the fear and anxiety
What is Systematic Desensitization
400
Therapy that depends on identifying and changing inappropriately negative and self critical patterns of thought
What is Cognitive Therapy
400
Small, local gatherings of people who share a common problem and who provide mutual support and assistance at a low cost.
What are Self Help Groups
400
Therapy in which mild electrical current is passed through the brain for a short period. Used to treat severe, prolonged depression
What is ECT Elect.roconculsive therapy
500
The client's carrying over of the anaylst feelings held toward childhood authority figures
What is Transference
500
Behavioral therapy technique aimed at eliminating undesierable behavior patterns by teaching the person to associate them with pain and discomfort
What is Aversive conditioning
500
Who developed Cognitive Therapy
What is Aaron Beck
500
Attention is directed towards feelings not rebuttal in an example of...
What is Empathy Training
500
Zoloft, Effexor, Paxil and Prozac are types of this medication