Chapter 171 TherapyTherapy

2 Psychotherapy And emotionally charged, and fighting interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.

Chapter 173 Biomedical therapy Prescribe medication or medical procedures that are directly on the patient’s nervous system.

Chapter 174 Eclectic approach An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

Chapter 175 Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Free association Resistances Dreams Transference’s An interpretation by a trained professional helping a patient release their regressed feelings.

Chapter 176 Resistance In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material.

Chapter 177 Interpretation In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting the supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote in sight.

Chapter 178 Transference In psychoanalysis, the patients transferred to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.

Chapter 179 Face-to-face therapy Missed a therapy session, the catch is disappeared. But the influence of psychoanalysis may not have, especially if the therapist probes for the origin of the patient’s symptoms by seeking information from the patient’s childhood.

Chapter 1710 Client centered therapy A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth. Also called person centered therapy.

Chapter 1711 Active listening Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.

Chapter 1712 Behavior therapy Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

Chapter 1713 Counterconditioning A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that triggers unwanted behavior; based on classical conditioning. This can include exposure therapy and aversive conditioning.

Chapter 1714 Exposure therapies Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treats (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.

Chapter 1715 Systematic desensitization A type of counter conditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

Chapter 1716 Virtual reality exposure therapy And the anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.

Chapter 1717 Aversive conditioning A type of counter conditioning that associates and unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).

Chapter 1718 Token economy And operant conditioning procedure which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.

Chapter 1719 Cognitive therapy Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and their emotional reactions.

Chapter 1720 Cognitive behavior therapy A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).

Chapter 1721 Family therapy Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behavior as an influence by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improve communication.

Chapter 1722 Meta-analysis A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.

Chapter 1723 Tardive Dyskinesia involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tong, and limbs; a possible nerve toxic side effects of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors.

Chapter 1724 Electroconvulsive therapy ECT A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent to the brain of an anesthetized patient

Chapter 1725 Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation The application of repeated polls as of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity.

Chapter 1726 psychosurgery Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.

Chapter 1727 Lobotomy A now rare psycho surgical procedure once used to, uncontrollably emotional violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connected the final lobes of the emotion controlling centers of the brain.