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Therapy
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A general term for any treatment process; in psychology and psychiatry, therapy refers to a...
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Psychological Therapies
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Therapies based on psychological principles (rather than on the biomedical approach); often...
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Biomedical Therapies
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Treatments that focus on altering the brain, especially with drugs, psychosurgery, or electroconvulsive...
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Insight Therapies
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Psychotherapies in which the therapist helps patients/clients understand (gain insight into)...
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Talk Therapies
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Psychotherapies that focus on communicating and verbalizing emotions and motives to understand...
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Psychoanalysis
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The form of psychodynamic therapy developed by Sigmund Freud. The goal of pyschoanalysis is...
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Analysis of Transference
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The Freudian technique of analyzing and interpreting the patient's relationship with the therapist,...
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Neo-Freudian Psychodynamic Therapies
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Therapies for mental disorder that were developed by psychodynamic therorists who embraced...
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Humanistic Therapies
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Treatment techniques based on the assumption that people have the tendency for positive growth...
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Client-Centered Therapy
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A humanistic approach to treatment developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizing an individual's tendency...
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Reflection of Feeling
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Carl Roger's technique of paraphrasing the clients' words, attempting to capture the emotional...
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Cognitive Therapy
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Emphasizes rational thinking (as opposed to subjective emotion, motivation, or repressed conflicts)...
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Group Therapy
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Any form of psychotherapy done with more that one client/patient at a time. Group therapy is...
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Self-Help Support Groups
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Groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, that provide social support and an opportunity for sharing...
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Behavior Modification
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Another term for behavior therapy.
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Behavior Therapy
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Any form of pyschotherapy based on the principles of behavioral learning, especially operant...
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Systematic Desensitization
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A behavioral therapy technique in which anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patent to an...
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Exposure Therapy
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A form of desnsitization therapy in which the patient directly confronts the anxiety-provoking...
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Aversion Therapy
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As a classical conditioning procedure, aversive counterconditioning involves presenting individuals...
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Contingency Management
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An operant conditioning approach to changing behavior by altering the consequences, espcially...
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Token Economy
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An operant technique applied to groups, such as classrooms or mental hopital wards, involving...
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Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
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Albert Ellis's brand of cognitive therapy, based on the idea that irrational thoughts and behaviors...
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Active Listener
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A person who gives the speaker feedback in such forms as nodding, paraphrasing, maintaining...
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Psychopharmacology
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The prescribed use of drugs to help treat symptoms of mental illness ostensibly to ensure that...
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Antipsychotic Drugs
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Medicines that diminsih psychotic symptoms, usually by their effect on the dopamine pathways...
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Tardive Dyskinesia
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An incurable disorder of motor control, especially involving muscles of the face and head,...
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Antidepressant Drugs
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Medicines that affect depression, usually by their effect on the serotonin and/r norepinephrine...
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Lithium Carbonate
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A simple chemical compound that is hughly effective in dampening the exteme mood swings of...
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Antianxiety Drugs
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A category of drugs that includes the barbiturates and benzodiazepines, drugs that diminish...
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Stimulants
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Drugs that normally increase eactivity level by encouraging communication among neurons in...
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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A common problem in children who have difficulty controlling their behavior and focusing their...
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Psychosurgery
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The general term for surgical intervention in the rain to treat pychological disorders.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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A treatment used primarily for depression and involving the application of an electric current...
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
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A treatment that involves magnetic stimulation of specific regions of the brain. Unlike ECT,...
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Therapeutic Community
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Jones's term for a program of treating mental disorder by making the instiutional environment...
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Deinstitutionalization
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The policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals.
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Community Mental Health Movement
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Ane ffort to deinstitutionalize mental patients and to provide therapy from outpatient clinics....
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