PSY 120: Chapter 15

Treatment designed to help people deal with mental, emotional, or behavioral problems.

Biologically based treatments for reducing or eliminating the symptoms of psychological disorders.

medications that reduce the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Medications that modulate the availability or effectiveness of the neurotransmitters implicated in mood disorders.

Medications that reduce tension and anxiety.

A treatment used primarily for depression in which a brief electric current is delivered to the brain.

Surgery that destroys or alters tissues in the brain in an effort to affect behavior.

Treatments designed to give clients self-knowledge, or insight, into the contents of their thought processes.

Freud's method of treatment that attempts to bring hidden impulses and memories, which are locked in the unconscious, to the surface of awareness, thereby freeing the patient from disordered thought and behaviors.

A technique used in psychoanalysis to explore the contents of the unconscious; patients are asked to freely express whatever thoughts and feelings happen to come into their minds.

A technique used in psychoanalysis; Freud believed that dreams are symbolic and contain important information about the unconscious.

In psychoanalysis, a patient's unconsciously motivated attempts to subvert or hinder the process of therapy.

In psychoanalysis, the patient's expression of thoughts or feelings toward the therapist that are actually representative of the way the patient feels about other significant people in his life.

Treatments designed to remove irrational beliefs and negative thoughts that are presumed to be responsible for psychological disorders.

A form of cognitive therapy in which the therapist acts as a kind of cross-examiner, verbally assaulting the client's irrational thought process.

Treatments designed to help clients gain insight into their fundamental self-worth and value as human beings.

A form of humanistic therapy proposing that it is the client, not the therapist, who holds the key to psychological health and happiness; the therapist's role is to provide genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathy.

A form of therapy in which several people are treated simultaneously in the same setting.

A form of group therapy in which the therapist treats the family as whole, as a kind of social system. The goals of the treatment are often to improve interpersonal communication and collaboration.

Treatments designed to change behavior through the use of established learning techniques.

A technique that uses counterconditioning and extinction to reduce the fear and anxiety that have become associated with a specific objector event.

A treatment for replacing a positive reaction to a harmful stimulus, such as alcohol, with something negative, such as feeling nauseated. Aversion therapy replaces positive associations with negative ones, such as making a smoker feel bad rather than good after having a cigarette.

A type of behavioral therapy in which patients are rewarded with small tokens when they act in an appropriate way; the tokens can then be exchanged for certain privileges.

A statistical technique used to compare findings across many different research studies; comparisons are based on some common evaluation measure, such as the difference between treatment and control conditions.

Improvement in a psychological disorder without treatment--that is, simply as a function of the passage of time.