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Asylum
Institution created for the specific purpose of housing people with psychological disorders.
Aversive Conditioning
Counterconditioning technique that pairs an unpleasant stimulus with an undesirable behavior.
Behavior Therapy
Therapeutic orientation that employs principles of learning to help clients change undesirable behaviors.
Biomedical Therapy
Treatment that involves medication and/or medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.
Cognitive Therapy
Form of psychotherapy that focuses on how a person’s thoughts lead to feelings of distress, aiming to help them change these irrational thoughts.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Form of psychotherapy that aims to change cognitive distortions and self-defeating behaviors.
Comorbid Disorder
Individual who has two or more diagnoses, often including a substance abuse diagnosis and another psychiatric diagnosis, such as depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
Confidentiality
Therapist cannot disclose confidential communications to any third party, unless mandated or permitted by law.
Counterconditioning
Classical conditioning therapeutic technique in which a client learns a new response to a stimulus that has previously elicited an undesirable behavior.
Couples Therapy
Two people in an intimate relationship, such as husband and wife, who are having difficulties and are trying to resolve them with therapy.
Cultural Competence
Therapist’s understanding and attention to issues of race, culture, and ethnicity in providing treatment.
Deinstitutionalization
Process of closing large asylums and integrating people back into the community where they can be treated locally.
Dream Analysis
Technique in psychoanalysis in which patients recall their dreams and the psychoanalyst interprets them to reveal unconscious desires or struggles.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Type of biomedical therapy that involves using an electrical current to induce seizures in a person to help alleviate the effects of severe depression.
Exposure Therapy
Counterconditioning technique in which a therapist seeks to treat a client’s fear or anxiety by presenting the feared object or situation, with the idea that the person will eventually get used to it.
Family Therapy
Special form of group therapy consisting of one or more families.
Free Association
Technique in psychoanalysis in which the patient says whatever comes to mind at the moment.
Group Therapy
Treatment modality in which 5–10 people with the same issue or concern meet together with a trained clinician.
Humanistic Therapy
Therapeutic orientation aimed at helping people become more self-aware and accepting of themselves.
Individual Therapy
Treatment modality in which the client and clinician meet one-on-one.
Intake
Therapist's first meeting with the client in which the therapist gathers specific information to address the client’s immediate needs.
Involuntary Treatment
Therapy that is mandated by the courts or other systems.
Nondirective Therapy
Therapeutic approach in which the therapist does not give advice or interpretations but helps the person identify conflicts and understand feelings.
Play Therapy
Therapeutic process, often used with children, that employs toys to help them resolve psychological problems.
Psychoanalysis
Therapeutic orientation developed by Sigmund Freud that employs free association, dream analysis, and transference to uncover repressed feelings.
Psychotherapy
Psychological treatment that employs various methods to help someone overcome personal problems or attain personal growth.
Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)
Form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that focuses on identifying and changing irrational beliefs that lead to emotional distress.
Relapse
Repeated drug use and/or alcohol use after a period of improvement from substance abuse.
Rogerian (Client-Centered Therapy)
Non-directive form of humanistic psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers that emphasizes unconditional positive regard and self-acceptance.
Strategic Family Therapy
Therapist guides therapy sessions and develops treatment plans for each family member for specific problems that can be addressed in a short amount of time.
Structural Family Therapy
Therapist examines and discusses the boundaries and structure of the family: who makes the rules, who sleeps in the bed with whom, how decisions are made, and what the boundaries within the family are.
Systematic Desensitization
Form of exposure therapy used to treat phobias and anxiety disorders by exposing a person to the feared object or situation through a stimulus hierarchy.
Token Economy
Controlled setting where individuals are reinforced for desirable behaviors with tokens (e.g., poker chips) that can be exchanged for items or privileges.
Transference
Process in psychoanalysis in which the patient transfers all of the positive or negative emotions associated with their other relationships to the psychoanalyst.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Fundamental acceptance of a person regardless of what they say or do; term associated with humanistic psychology.
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
Uses a simulation rather than the actual feared object or situation to help people conquer their fears.
Voluntary Treatment
Therapy that a person chooses to attend in order to obtain relief from their symptoms.
