AP Psych Clinical Vocab

A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs that an individual has an unlimited capacity for psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed in the way.

Risperidone (Risperdal) ,Olanzapine (Zyprexa), Quetiapine (Seroquel) - are all examples of this

The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

A now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.

A surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

A treatment for severe depression involving exposure of specific brain structures to bursts of high-intensity magnetic fields instead of electricity

A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

A popular integrative therapy that combines changing self-defeating thinking with changing behavior