psychology

professionals who are trained to help people change their thoughts emotions or behaviors to imrove their psychological problems

holds a doctor degree and is trained to conduct psychological testing and assessment counseling or research

work to improve the psychological health of their clients

people who chose to cope with their problems themselves

a type of mental health professional who usually works in a community

help agencies give clients occupational and social skills (community programs)

hold an MD and can prescribe meds (biological)

may work in congunction with psychatrist and psychologist in am impatient mental health faciliy (biological)

involves uncovering unconscious images and conflicts then understanding the cause (psychodynamic)

• reveal the unconscious thoughts of clients
• (psychodynamic)

interpret the meaning of clients' dreams (pyschodynamic)

clients display intense feelings towards therapist (psychdynamic)

a technique that a theapist uses the find out a clients repressed conflict and unconscious motivations, the trained analyst may bring them to the client's attention

where the clients refuse to say anything (psychodynamic)

therapist builds a supportive warm enviroment and acts as a facilitator in understanding the clients' feelings (humanistic)

Involves respecting and accepting client regardless of what they say or do. ( humanistic)

try to understand the world from their clients' perspective (humanistic)

open and honest with clients (humanistic)

treatment focuses on what constitutes a clients' existence (humanistic)

aim to reduce the overt symptoms of mental problems or to change behavior

an unwanting response to a particular stimulus is replaced by a more appropriate response through conditioning

used to treat phobias or other types of anxiety, goal is to replace the unwanted anxiety response with an incomparticle response, relaxation (behavioral)

a list of imagined situations that progressively lead to the feared event (behavioral)

used to replace a pleasant response to aan undesired activity eith an unpleasant response (behavioral)

reinforcement in mental institution (behavioral)

therapist models approproate behaviors; in turn the clients reherse the behaviors and the therapist reinforces their new behavior (behavioral)

client is connected to sensors and a display(behavioral)

modeled after the ABC theory(cognitive)

challenges clients' irrational thoughts (cognitive)