Treatment and Health Psychology Flashcards

Alarm reaction, resistance and exhaustion.

Eustress is positive, motivating stress (e.g., preparing for a race). Distress is stress that overwhelms your ability to cope and harms health.

A stress response, more common in women, of caring for others and seeking social support instead of fighting or fleeing (Shelley Taylor).

Problem-focused coping tackles the stressor directly. Emotion-focused coping manages your emotional reaction, often when the stressor cannot be changed.

Potentially traumatic events in childhood, such as abuse, neglect or household dysfunction, that are linked to poorer physical and mental health in adulthood.

The scientific study of human strengths and flourishing, such as well-being, gratitude and resilience, championed by Martin Seligman.

Positive psychological change, such as greater appreciation for life or closer relationships, that can follow a struggle with highly challenging circumstances.

Philippe Pinel, who removed patients' chains and argued for treating them with kindness.

The movement, from the mid-20th century and helped by antipsychotic drugs, to release patients from large psychiatric hospitals into community-based care.

To increase self-insight by bringing unconscious conflicts, often rooted in childhood, into awareness, using techniques such as free association and interpretation.

A client redirecting feelings from other relationships, such as love or anger toward a parent, onto the therapist.

Carl Rogers's humanistic therapy, in which the therapist uses active listening, genuineness and unconditional positive regard to help the client grow.

A behavior therapy that pairs relaxation with gradually more anxiety-provoking stimuli, used to treat phobias (developed by Joseph Wolpe).

A behavior therapy that pairs an unwanted behavior with an unpleasant state (e.g., a drug that causes nausea when alcohol is consumed).

An operant conditioning technique in which people earn tokens for desired behavior and exchange them for privileges or treats.

A therapy, first developed for depression, that teaches people to identify and challenge automatic negative thoughts and distorted thinking.

Albert Ellis's direct, confrontational therapy that challenges irrational beliefs, such as "I must be liked by everyone."

A widely used integrative therapy that changes self-defeating thinking and the behaviors that go with it.

A CBT-based therapy developed by Marsha Linehan that combines acceptance and change strategies, first used for borderline personality disorder and self-harm.

Drawing on techniques from several forms of therapy, depending on the client's problem.

The bond of trust and mutual understanding between therapist and client, one of the strongest predictors of successful therapy.

They block the reuptake of serotonin, leaving more of it available in the synapse.

Mainly by blocking dopamine receptors. Long-term use of older antipsychotics can cause tardive dyskinesia, involuntary movements of the face and tongue.

Lithium.

A treatment that passes a brief electric current through the brain of an anesthetized patient, used mainly for severe depression that has not responded to other treatment.