Dismissing the Patient's Fears and Reassuring Him or Her That

question 21

True/False

Dismissing the patient's fears and reassuring him or her that everything will be okay prior to the procedure improves chairside manner.

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Definitions:

Interpretation

The process of explaining the meaning of something; in psychology, often referring to the analysis of dreams, actions, or thoughts.

Dream

A succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

Transference

The process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially in psychoanalysis.

Counterconditioning

A therapy method that involves teaching the patient to replace a negative response to a stimulus with a positive one.