Troubling thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that cause psychological discomfort or interfere with a person's ability to function.
What is Psychological Disorder?
100
When the patient sees the therapist as a significant person in their life.
What is Transference?
100
Developed by Carl Rogers, the therapist is nondirective and reflective. The client directs the focus of the therapy.
What is Client-Centered Therapy?
100
Focuses on directly changing maladaptive behavior patterns by using basic learning principles and techniques.
What is Behavior Therapy?
100
Prescribed drugs that alter mental functions and alleviate psychological symptoms.
What is Psychotropic Medications?
200
Two broad forms of therapy used by mental health professionals.
What is Psychotherapy and Biomedical therapy?
200
Lasts no longer than a few months, the patients problems are quickly assessed and the patient and therapist agree on concrete, specific, and attainable goals.
What is Short-Term Dynamic Therapies?
200
Where the client realizes his or her unique potentials and talents.
What is Self-actualization?
200
Goal is to modify specific problem behaviors, not change the entire personality.
What is Behavior Therapy?
200
Prescription drugs that are used to reduce psychotic symptoms.
What is Antipsychotic Medications?
300
Where the patient spills out all of their thoughts, mental images, and feelings while lying on a couch.
What is Free Association?
300
Focuses on current relationships and is based on the assumption that psychological symptoms are caused and maintained by interpersonal problems.
What Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)?
300
Designed to help clients overcome mixed feelings or reluctance they might have about committing to change.
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
300
Assumed to be learned just as adaptive behaviors.
What is Maladaptive behaviors?
300
Class of antidepressant medication that increase the availability of serotonin in the brain and cause fewer side effects than earlier antidepressants.
What is Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI)
400
The content of dreams is analyzed for disguised or symbolic wishes, meanings, and motivation.
What is Dream Interpretation?
400
Unresolved grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits.
What is The Interpersonal Therapy Model?
400
Usually last only a session or two and is more directive than traditional Client-Centered Therapy.
What is MI?
400
The learning of a new conditioned response that is incompatible with a previously learned response.
What is Counterconditioning?
400
A biomedical therapy that involves electrically inducing a brief brain seizure.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?
500
The patient's unconscious attempts to block the revelation of repressed memories or conflicts. Also a sign the patient is uncomfortably close to uncovering psychologically threatening things.
What is Resistance?
500
Used to treat depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse.
What is IPT?
500
Main goal is to encourage and strengthen the client's self-motivating statements.
What is MI?
500
Focuses on changing the client's irrational beliefs.
What is Rational-Emotive Therapy?
500
Effectively treats bipolar disorder by regulating glutamate levels in the brain.