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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems. uses techniques from various forms of therapy

Freud's therapeutic technique. He believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist's interpretations of them- released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight

a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth

empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy

a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.

an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking

a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant states (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)

an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior an can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.

the tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back toward their average

a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system

the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors

drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of anesthetized patient

the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal loves to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain

the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

________ are likely to teach clients to take more responsibility for their own feelings and actions

cognitive therapies have achieved especially favorable results in the treatment of

associating unwanted behaviors with unpleasant experiences

Jonathon is afraid to ask a girl for a date, so his therapist instructs him to relax and simply imagine he is reading for a telephone and then calling a potential date. The therapist's technique best illustrates the process of

As a therapist, Dr. Cioffi often uses systematic desensitization. She also considers active listening to be an invaluable therapeutic tool, and she frequently makes use of free association. Dr. Cioffi's therapeutic approach would best be described as

Mr. Quinones, a 5th grade teacher, gives a blue plastic star to each student who achieves a high score on a math or spelling test. At the end of the semester, students can exchange their stars for prizes. Mr. Quinones' classroom strategy illustrates an application of

Benny's mother tries to reduce his fear of sailing by giving the 3-year-old his favorite candy as soon as they board the boat. The mother's strategy best illustrates

instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, ______ therapies seek to promote personal growth and self-fulfillment

a token economy represents an application of the principles of

a central therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis is

an important feature of client-centered therapy is

Cindy suggested that her nail biting might be a symptom of unconscious resentment toward her parents. Her therapist chuckled and said, "No, Cindy, your problem isn't unconscious hostility; your problem is nail biting." Cindy's therapist sounds most like a _________ therapist.

Nina claimed that her failure to get A's in all her courses meant she was incompetent. her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting, "By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of all students are incompetent!" The therapist's response was most typical of a ________ therapist

Dylan is a second-year undergrad who feels so incompetent that he believes his life is worthless and hopeless. Dylan would profit the most from

As a psychotherapist, Dr. Bulst does not analyze people's motives or diagnose the nature of their difficulties beaus he believes that they are in the best position to diagnose and solve their own problems. Dr. Bulst's position is most characteristic of _________ therapy

an integrated therapy that aims to modify both self-defeating thinking and maladaptive actions is known as ________-__________ therapy

In 1924, Mary Cover Jones reported that 3-year-old Peter lost his fear of rabbits when a rabbit was repeatedly represented while Peter was eating a tasty snack. This episode best illustrated the potential usefulness of

Lynn has begun to buy small gifts for her therapist, and she feels extremely jealous of the time he spends with his other patients. To a psychoanalyst, the is most indicative of

Antipsychotic drug that lowers dopamine levels in an attempt to dampen responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli

This antianxiety drug increases the effect of GABA

This antidepressant's brand name is Prozac

This drug is used for the treatment of bipolar disorder and stabilizes the neurotransmitter glutamate

This mood stabilizing drug is used for the treatment of bipolar disorder but affects GABA rather than glutamate

Like Prozac, this antidepressant(brand name) is an SSRI, which blocks the reuptake of serotonin

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