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Psychotherapy
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A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives
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Paraproffessional
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Person with no professional training who provides mental health services
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Insight therapies
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Psychotherapies, including psychodynamic and humanistic-existential approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight
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Free association
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Technique in which patients express themselves without censorship of any sort
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Resistance
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Attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions, and impulses
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Transference
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Projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist
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Work through
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To confront and resolve problems, conflicts, and ineffective coping responses in everyday life
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Interpersonal therapy
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Treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions
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Humanistic-existential psychotherapy
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Therapies that share an emphasis on the development of human potential and the belief that human nature is basically positive
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Phenomenological approach
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Perspective in which therapists encounter patients in terms of subjective phenomena (thoughts, feelings) in the present moment
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Person-centered therapy
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Therapy centering on the patient's goals and ways of solving problems
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Gestalt therapy
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Therapy that aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self
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Experiential therapies
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Interventions that recognize the importance of awareness, acceptance, and expression of feelings
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Logotherapy (existentialism)
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Therapeutic approach that helps people find meaning in their lives
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Behavior therapists
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Therapist who focuses on specific problem behaviors, and current variables that maintain problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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