Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
What is psychotherapy
100
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
What is antipsychotic drugs
100
The tendency for extreme scores to fall back toward the average
What is regression toward the mean
100
The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
What is resilience
100
Freud's therapeutic approach. The purpose is for the client to achieve personal growth
What is psychoanalysis
200
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A client-centered therapy
What is active listening
200
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
What is psychosurgery
200
People often enter therapy in
What is crisis
200
According to the preventative theory, not only does the person himself need treatment, but so does the persons...
What is social context
200
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
What is behavior therapy
300
A procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior that can later be exchanged for privileges and treats
What is token economy
300
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
300
Propose to manipulate peoples' invisible energy fields
What is energy therapies
300
Seeks to prevent psychological casualties by identifying and alleviating the conditions that cause them
What is preventative mental health
300
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
What is cognitive therapy
400
A behavior therapy that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors
What is counterconditioning
400
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs. A side-effect of using antipsychotic drugs for extended periods of time.
What is tardive dyskinesia
400
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
What is meta-analysis
400
George Albee believed that ______ increases risk of depression and suicide.
What is stress
400
An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy
What is the eclectic approach
500
A popular therapy that combines changing self-defeating thoughts with changing behaviors
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy
500
The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
500
Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
What is evidence-based practice
500
This type of training promotes positive thinking in children at risk for depression
What is Cognitive Training
500
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking