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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

A central therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis is
free association

Psychodynamic therapy's major goal
helping patients gain perspective on feelings they seem to be defending against/self-insight

Active Listening
echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what the person expresses and acknowledging the expressed feelings

exposure therapies
reducing patients' anxiety by having them repeatedly experience in safe settings the things they fear and often avoid

aversive conditioning
A therapy when unwanted behavior is systematically associated with unpleasant experiences

cognitive therapy
treatment centers on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
An integrative therapy that aims to modify both self-defeating thinking and maladaptive actions

Client-centered therapy
developed by Carl Rogers, this humanistic therapy includes unconditional positive regard

Comorbidity
the co-occurrence/overlapping of two or more disorders in a single individual

Light Therapy
sparks activity in a brain region that influences the body's arousal

social work
the profession outside of the field of psychology prepared to offer psychotherapy (in completion of graduate school)

antipsychotic drugs
drugs that appear to produce therapeutic effects by blocking dopamine receptor sites (as in Schizophrenia)

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
a biomedical therapy proven effective in the treatment of depression
