treatment of Psychological Disorders

the treatment of psychological disorders through talking and other psychological methods

medical doctors who have completed special training in the treatment of psychological disorders

among therapists, those whose education includes completion of a master's or (usualy) a doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology, often followed by additional specialty

a method of psychotherapy that seks to help clients gain insight by recognizing and understanding unconscious thoughts and emotion

a therapy that allows the client to decide what to talk about, without direction, judgment, or interpretation from the therapist

a therapist attitude that conveys a caring for, and acceptance of, the client as a valued person

the therapist's attempt to appreciate and understand how the world looks from the client's point of view

an active listening method in which a therapist conveys empathy by paraphrasing clients' statements and noting accompanying feelings

a consistency between the way therapists feel and the way they act toward clients

an active treatment designed to help clients get in touch with genuine feelings and disown foreign ones

treatments that use classical conditioning principles to change behavior

treatments that use operant conditioning methods to change behavior

learning-based treatment methods that help clients change the way they think, as well as the way they behave

a behavioral treatment for anxiety in which clients visualize a graduated series of anxiety-provoking stimuli while remaining relaxed

demonstrating desirable behaviors as a way of teaching them to cleints

methods for teaching clients how to interact with others more comfortably and effectively

a therapy method that uses rewards to strenthen desirable behaviors

a system for imprving the behavior of intitutionalized clients in which desirable behaviors are rewarded with tokens that can be exchanged for desired items or activities

the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response or operant behavior through nonreinforcement

a procedure for reducing anxiety that involves keeping a person in a feared, but harmles, situation

a method that uses classical conditioning to create a negative response to a particular stimulus

a therapy method that weakens undesirable behavior by following it with an unpleasant stimulus

a treatment designed to identify and change self-defeating thoughts that lead to anxiety and other symptoms or disorder

a treatment in which the therapist helps clients to notice and change negative thoughts associated with anxiety and depression

psychotherapy involving several unrelated clients

treatment of two or more individuals from the same family

a form of therapy focusing on improving communication between partners

treatments whose effects have been validated by controlled experimental research

brief electrival shock administered to the brain, usually to reduce depression that does not respond to drug treatment

surgical procedures that destroy tissue in small regions of the brain in an effort to treat psychological disorders

drugs that alleviate the symptoms of severe disorders such as schizophrenia

drugs that relieve depression

drugs that reduce feelings of anxiety

a movement to minimize or prevent psychological disorders through changes in social systems and through community mental health programs