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treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
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Psychotherapy
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an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
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Eclectic Approach
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Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-- and the therapist's interpretations of them release previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
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Psychoanalysis
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in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
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Resistance
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in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
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Interpretation
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in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)
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Transference
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therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight
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Psychodynamic Therapy
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a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses
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Insight Therapies
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a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic enviroment to facilitate client's growth
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Client-Centered Therapy
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empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies; a feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy
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Active Listening
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a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
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Unconditional Positive Regard
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therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
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Behavior Therapy
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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
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Counterconditioning
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behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid
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Exposure Therapies
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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.
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Systematic Desensitization
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a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
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Aversive Conditioning
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an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
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Token Economy
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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
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Cognitive Therapy
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a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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therapy that treats the family as a system; views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
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Family Therapy
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clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
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Evidence-Based Practice
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