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Active listening
empathic listening in which
the listener echoes, restates,
and clarifies. A feature of
Rogers' client-centered
therapy.
Antianxiety drugs
drugs used to control
anxiety and agitation.
Antidepressant drugs
drugs used to treat
depression; also
increasingly prescribed
for anxiety .
Antipsychotic drugs
drugs used to treat
schizophrenia and other
forms of severe thought
disorder.
Antisocial personality
disorder
a personality disorder in which a
person exhibits a lack of conscious
for wrongdoing, even toward
friends and family members. may be
aggressive and ruthless or a clever
con artist.
Anxiety disorders
Attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD)
Aversive conditioning
Behavior therapy
Biomedical therapy
psychological disorders
characterized by distressing,
persistent anxiety or
maladaptive behaviors that
reduce anxiety.
a psychological disorder marked
by the appearance by age 7 of
one or more of three key
symptoms extreme inattention,
hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
a type of counterconditioning
that associates an unpleasant
state with and unwanted
behavior.
Therapy that applies
learning principles to the
elimination of unwanted
behaviors
prescribed medication or
medical procedures that act
directly on the patient's
nervous system.
Bipolar disorder
Client-centered therapy
Cognitive-behavioral
therapy
Cognitive therapy
Conversion disorder
a mood disorder in which the
person alternates between the
hopelessness and lethargy of
depression and the overexcited
state of mania.
a humanistic therapy, developed by
Carl Rogers, in which the therapist
uses techniques such as active
listening with a genuine, accepting,
and empathic environment to
facilitate clients' growth.
a psychotherapeutic approach that
addresses dysfunctional emotions,
maladaptive behaviors and
cognitive processes. It combines
cognitive therapy and behavioral
therapy techniques.
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.
a rare somatoform disorder in
which a person experiences very
specific genuine physical
symptoms for which no
physiological basis can be found.
Counterconditioning
Countertransference
Delusions
Dissociative disorders
Dissociative identity
disorder
a behavior therapy producer that
uses classical conditioning to evoke
new responses to stimuli that are
triggering unwanted behaviors;
includes exposure therapies and
aversive conditioning.
transference, but from the
psychotherapist's perspective.
Redirection of a psychotherapist's
feelings toward a client, or, more
generally, as a therapist's emotional
entanglement with a client
false beliefs, often of
persecution or grandeur,
that may accompany
psychotic disorders.
disorders in which conscious
awareness becomes separated
(dissociated) from previous
memories, thoughts, and
feelings.
a rare dissociative disorder in
which a person exhibits two or
more distinct and alternating
personalities. formerly called
multiple personality disorder.
DSM-IV-TR
Eclectic approach
Electroconvulsive
therapy (ECT)
Evidence-based practice
Exposure therapies
the American Psychiatric Association's
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition,
updated as a 2000 "text revision"; a
widely used system for classifying
psychological disorders.
an approach to
psychotherapy that,
depending on the client's
problems, uses techniques
from various forms of therapy.
a biochemical therapy for
severely depressed patients in
which a brief electric current is
sent through the brain of an
anesthetized patient.
clinical decision-making that
integrates the best available
research with clinical expertise
and patient characteristics and
preferences.
behavior techniques, such as a
systematic desensitization, that
treats anxieties by exposing
people to do the things they fear
and avoid.
Family therapy
Generalized anxiety
disorder
Hallucinations
Hypochondriasis
Insanity
Therapy that treats the family as
a system. Views an individual's
unwanted behaviors as
influenced by, or directed at
other family members
an anxiety disorder in which a
person is continually tense,
apprehensive, and in a state of
autonomic nervous system
arousal.
false sensory experiences,
such as seeing something in
the absence of an external
visual stimulus.
a somatoform disorder in
which a person interprets
normal physical sensations
as symptoms of a disease.
a mental illness so severe
that a person cannot
distinguish between fantasy
from reality.
Insight therapies
Interpretation
Lobotomy
Major depressive
disorder
Mania
a sudden and often novel
realization of the solution to a
problem; it contracts with the
strategy-based solutions.
in psychoanalysis, the analyst's
noting supposed dream
meanings, resistance, and other
significant behaviors and events
in order to promote insight.
a now rare psychosurgical procedure
once used to calm uncontrollably
emotional or violent patients. The
procedure cut the nerves connecting
the frontal lobes to the emotioncontrolling centers of the inner brain.
a mood disorder in which a person
experiences, in the absence of drugs or
a medical condition, two or more weeks
of significantly depressed moods,
feelings of worthlessness, and
diminished interest or pleasure in most
activities.
a mood disorder
marked by a
hyperactive, widely
optimistic state.
Medical model
Meta-analysis
Mood disorders
Obsessive-compulsive
disorder
Panic disorder
the concept that diseases, in this
case psychological disorders, have
physical causes that can be
diagnosed, treated, and in most
cases, cured, often through
treatment in a hospital.
a procedure for statistically
combining the results of
many different research
studies.
psychological disorders
characterized by
emotional extremes.
an anxiety disorder
characterized by unwanted
repetitive thoughts
(obsessions) and/or actions
(compulsions).
an anxiety disorder marked by
unpredictable minutes-long
episodes of intense dread in which a
person experiences terror and
accompany chest pain, choking, or
other frightening sensations.
Personality disorders
Phobia
Post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD)
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic therapy
psychological disorders
characterized by inflexible
and enduring behavior
pattern that impair social
functioning.
an anxiety disorder marked
by a persistent, irrational and
avoidance of a specific object,
activity or situation.
an anxiety disorder characterized by
haunting memories, nightmare,
social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety,
and/or insomnia that lingers for
four weeks or more after a
traumatic experience.
Freud's theory of personality
and therapeutic technique that
attributes thoughts and actions
to unconscious motives and
conflicts.
Therapy deriving from
psychoanalytic tradition that views
individuals as responding to
unconscious forces and childhood
experiences, and that seeks to
enhance self-insight.
Psychological disorder
deviant, distressful, and
dysfunctional patterns
of thoughts, feelings, or
behaviors
Psychopharmacology
the study of the effects
of drugs on mind and
behavior.
Psychosurgery
Psychotherapy
Rational-emotive
behavior therapy (REBT)
treatment involving psychological
techniques; consists of interactions
between a trained therapist and
someone seeking to overcome
psychological difficulties or achieve
personal growth.
treatment involving psychological
techniques; consists of interactions
between a trained therapist and
someone seeking to overcome
psychological difficulties or achieve
personal growth.
a form of Cognitive-behavior
therapy. Focuses on resolving
emotional and behavioral problems
and disturbances and enabling
people to lead happier and more
fulfilling lives.
Regression toward the
mean
The tendency for
extreme or unusual
scores to fall back
toward their average.
Resistance
in psychoanalysis, the
blocking from
consciousness of
anxiety-laden material.
Schizophrenia
Somatoform disorders
Systematic
desensitization
a group of severe disorders
characterized by disorganized and
delusional thinking, disturbed
perceptions, and inappropriate
emotions and actions.
psychological disorder in
which the symptoms take a
somatic (bodily) form without
apparent physical cause.
a type of exposure therapy that
associates a pleasant relaxed state
with a gradually increasing anxietytriggering stimuli. Commonly used
to treat phobias.
Tardive dyskinesia
Token economy
Transference
involuntary movements
of facial muscles,
tongue, and limbs.
an operant conditioning procedure
in which people earn a token of
some sort fro exhibiting a desired
behavior and can later exchange the
tokens for various privileges or
treats.
the psychoanalysis, the
patients transfer to the
analyst of emotions linked
with other relationships.
Unconditional positive
regard
a caring, accepting,
nonjudgmental attitude, which
Carl Rogers believed would help
clients to develop selfawareness and self-concept.
Virtual reality exposure
therapy
An anxiety treatment that
progressively exposes people to
simulations of their greatest
fears, such as airplane flying,
spiders, or public speaking.