Chapter 17
Across
- 1. a technique to help a patient overcome irrational fears and anxieties
- 3. focuses on the belief that the client and therapist are partners in therapy
- 5. focuses on the value, dignity, and worth of each person; holds that healthy living is the result of realizing one's full potential
- 9. any treatment used by therapists to help troubled individuals overcome their problems
- 10. a chemical used to counteract mood swings of bipolar disorder
- 12. biological therapy that uses medications
- 16. A technique used by psychoanalysts to interpret the content of patients' dreams
- 19. the free flow of images and ideas, with no particular direction
- 21. links an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior in an attempt to eliminate the behavior
- 26. a systematic method of changing the way a person acts and feels
- 28. empathetic listening; a listener acknowledges, restates, and clarifies the spreaker's thoughts and concerns
- 30. using thoughts to control emotions and behaviors
- 31. a medical operation that destroys part of the brain to make the patient calmer and freer of symptoms
Down
- 2. medication that relieves anxiety and panic disorders by depressing the activity of the central nervous system
- 4. capacity for warmth and understanding
- 6. a therapist's consistent expression of acceptance of the patient, no matter what the patient says and does
- 7. the influence that a patient's hopes and expectations have on his or her improvement during therapy
- 8. an electrical shock is sent throught the brain to try to reduce symptoms of mental disturbance
- 11. the process, experienced by the patient, of feeling toward an analyst or therapist the way he or she feels or felt toward some other important figure in his or her life
- 13. a method used to examine the unconscious; the patient is instructed to say whatever comes into his or her mind
- 14. therapy aimed at making patients aware of their unconscious motives so that they can gain control over their behavior
- 15. patients work together with the aid of a leader to resolve interpersonal problems
- 17. a radical form of psychosurgery in which a section of the frontal lobe of the brain is destroyed
- 18. desirable behavior is reinforced with valueless objects or points, which can be accumulated and exchanged for various rewards
- 20. based on a combination of substituting healthy thoughts for negative thoughts and beliefs and changing disruptive behaviors in favor of healthy behaviors
- 22. medication used to reduce aggitation, delusions, and hallucinations by blocking the activity of dopamine in the brain; tranquilizers
- 23. a form of psychological help aimned at changing unrealistic assumptions about oneself and other people
- 24. the reluctance of a patient to either reveal painful feelings or to examin long standing behavior patterns
- 25. changing undesirable behavior through conditioning techniques
- 27. Approach method that combines various kinds of therapy or combinations of therapies
- 29. medication to treat major depression by increasing the amount of one or both of the neurotransmitters noradrenaline and sertonin