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The use of adventure-based activities to provide people with emotional and/or behavioral problems with experiences that lead to positive change in their lives.
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Any of a category of controversial alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders.
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A discredited psychotherapeutic technique where the patient is harangued aggressively in order to be 'broken down' or 'gotten to'.
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(psychology) A practitioner of autoanalysis
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(psychology) Involving a subject changing him/herself rather than the environment or situation.
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Initialism of cognitive behavioral therapy. [(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions, focussing on a client's current state rather than on their past.]
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The science of risk analysis
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Of or relating to Hervey M. Cleckley (1903–1984), American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy.
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(psychology) A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
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Alternative form of co-counselling [A form of self-help counselling in which each person takes equal turns, usually in pairs, to work on the things in themselves and their lives that they would like to change. This person is mostly or wholly in charge; the other person or people mainly give supportive attention, or suggest ways of working.]
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A form of self-help counselling in which each person takes equal turns, usually in pairs, to work on the things in themselves and their lives that they would like to change. This person is mostly or wholly in charge; the other person or people mainly give supportive attention, or suggest ways of working.
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(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions, focussing on a client's current state rather than on their past.
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(Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of cognitive behavioral therapy [(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions, focussing on a client's current state rather than on their past.]
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(psychology) A branch of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language.
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A form of psychotherapy that attempts to identify and change dysfunctional behavior, thinking, and emotional responses.
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(psychotherapy) Exhibiting or reflecting countertransference.
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(psychotherapy) Of or relating to countertransference.
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A time-limited intervention with a specific psychotherapeutic approach to immediately stabilize those in emotional crisis.
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Initialism of dialectical behavior therapy. [(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach used to treat personality disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, interpersonal conflicts, self-harm, substance abuse and other maladaptive coping strategies, which focuses on synthesizing the importance of self-acceptance with the acceptance of a need to change one's behavior.]
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(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach used to treat personality disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, interpersonal conflicts, self-harm, substance abuse and other maladaptive coping strategies, which focuses on synthesizing the importance of self-acceptance with the acceptance of a need to change one's behavior.
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(Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of dialectical behavior therapy [(psychology) A psychotherapeutic approach used to treat personality disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, interpersonal conflicts, self-harm, substance abuse and other maladaptive coping strategies, which focuses on synthesizing the importance of self-acceptance with the acceptance of a need to change one's behavior.]
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Of or pertaining to Milton Hyland Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy.
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A technique in behavior therapy in which the target patient is exposed to an anxiety source with the intention of helping him overcome it.
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A form of therapeutic intervention, used mainly with autistic children, in which the therapist meets the child at its current developmental level and entices it to move up a hierarchy of developmental milestones.
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(medicine, historical) A supporter of the doctrine of fluidism.
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Alternative letter-case form of Gestalt therapy [(psychology) An existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment.]
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(psychology) Gestalt therapy
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A section of the American Psychiatric Association's code of ethics, stating that it is unethical for a psychiatrist to give a professional opinion about a public figure they have not examined in person, and whose mental health they have not received consent to discuss.
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(psychoanalysis) A psychological method or science founded by the Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler.
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Of or relating to Timothy Leary (1920–1996), American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of psychedelic drugs.
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(humorous) Mental health professionals.
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A form of community-based psychotherapy in which patients are encouraged to take responsibility for themselves and others within the unit, based upon a hierarchy of collective punishments.
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Any of several forms of therapy involving play, mostly aimed at children, that aim to resolve trauma or other psychological difficulties
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(psychology) A conditioned response.
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Similar to or having the appearance of psychoanalysis.
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(transitive, informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
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The dominating influence on social work of ideas from psychoanalysis.
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A psychiatric procedure of the 1950s and 1960s in which patients were subjected to a continuously repeated audio message on a looped tape to alter their behaviour.
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A family of theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that work to find connections among patients' unconscious mental processes
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The quality of being psychocentric.
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A form of psychotherapy in which a patient acts a role in a context devised by a psychotherapist.
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education given to people who have, or have to deal with, psychological disturbances
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Employing or relating to psychomanipulation.
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Pertaining to or suffering from a psychoneurosis.
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The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
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A form of psychotherapy and counselling that focuses on the present and the ability to make decisions leading to a better future.
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(psychotherapy) A type of therapy developed by Mary and Robert Goulding in 1979 as a form of transactional analysis.
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(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
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(psychotherapy) One who carries out regressions, inducing a patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.
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Of or relating to schizoanalysis.
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A school of psychology that seeks to address people not on an individual level, as was the focus of earlier forms of therapy, but as people in relationships, dealing with the interactional patterns and group dynamics.
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A form of therapy aiming to resolve a person's emotional difficulties and form goals for their future.
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(psychology, psychiatry) A system of behavior modification based on the principles of operant conditioning; patients are rewarded with tokens (reinforcers) for engaging in desirable activities.
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A psychotherapeutic approach, often utilized with children and adolescents, that addresses emotional and behavioral difficulties due to a traumatic event by talking through the event with the patient.
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