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Deinstitutionalization
The process of moving people with psychological disorders out of institutional facilities.
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Psychotherapy
Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
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Biomedical therapy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.
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Eclectic approach
An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.
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Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique that relies on free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences to gain self-insight.
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Resistance
The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material in psychoanalysis.
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Interpretation
The analyst’s noting of supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors to promote insight in psychoanalysis.
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Transference
The patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.
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Psychodynamic therapy
Therapy deriving from psychoanalytic tradition, focusing on unconscious forces and childhood experiences.
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Insight therapies
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
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Person-centered therapy
A humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers using active listening in an accepting environment to facilitate client growth.
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Active listening
Empathic listening where the listener echoes, restates, and seeks clarification.
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Unconditional positive regard
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude believed to help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
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Behavior therapy
Therapy that uses learning principles to reduce unwanted behaviors.
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Counterconditioning
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli triggering unwanted behaviors.
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Exposure therapies
Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to their fears in controlled situations.
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Systematic desensitization
A type of exposure therapy that gradually associates a pleasant relaxed state with increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
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Virtual reality exposure therapy
A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through electronic simulations of specific fears.
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Aversive conditioning
Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior.
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Token economy
An operant conditioning procedure where individuals earn tokens for desired behaviors to exchange for privileges.
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Cognitive therapy
Therapy that teaches new, adaptive ways of thinking by addressing the thoughts between events and emotional reactions.
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Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
A confrontational cognitive therapy developed by Albert Ellis that challenges self-defeating attitudes.
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
An integrative therapy combining cognitive and behavior therapy techniques.
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Group therapy
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, benefiting from group interaction.
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Family therapy
Therapy that treats individuals in the context of their family system.
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Confirmation bias
The tendency to focus on information that supports preconceptions while ignoring contradictory evidence.
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Meta-analysis
A statistical procedure for analyzing results from multiple studies to draw an overall conclusion.
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Evidence-based practice
Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and client preferences.
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Therapeutic alliance
A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client.
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Psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.
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Antipsychotic drugs
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and severe thought disorders.
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Antianxiety drugs
Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.
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Antidepressant drugs
Drugs used to treat depressive disorders and anxiety-related disorders.
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
A biomedical therapy for severe depression involving electric currents sent through the brain.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain to stimulate or suppress activity.
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Psychosurgery
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue to change behavior.
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Lobotomy
A psychosurgical procedure used to calm emotional or violent patients by cutting frontal lobe connections.
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Hypnosis
A social interaction where a hypnotist suggests perceptions or behaviors to a subject.
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Dissociation
A split in consciousness allowing thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously.
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Posthypnotic suggestion
A suggestion made during hypnosis to be carried out after the session.
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Posttraumatic growth
Positive psychological changes following a struggle with challenging circumstances.
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