Exam 9: Gender Roles, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

Rational-emotive behavior therapy is ______.

Exercise enhances physical, but not psychological, well-being.

Gestalt therapy is the application of principles of learning to promote desired behavioral changes.

Identify and briefly describe at least five steps you can take to ensure that you receive appropriate care when you are seeking help from mental health professionals.

Dialogue, paying particular attention to facial expressions, and expressing ideas opposed to your own are crucial to ______.

One of the BEST ways to deal with irrational thoughts is to ______.

______ drugs are prescription drugs that are widely used to help relieve disturbing emotional states, such as anxiety or depression, or to control symptoms of schizophrenia or other severe persisting disorders: such as bipolar disorder.

Drugs such as Tofranil and Elavil that prevent the reuptake of noradrenaline and serotonin by the axon terminals of the transmitting neurons are ______.

Antidepressant drugs usually build up to therapeutic levels within several hours.

To better serve ethnic minorities, therapists need to do each of the following EXCEPT ______.

Most forms of psychotherapy were pioneered and tested with ______ clients.

Group therapy is most likely to be recommended for someone who ______.

Many of Freud's followers from the second generation of psychoanalysts believe that Freud placed too much emphasis on ______.

The most common side-effect of antianxiety drugs is ______.

Family therapists teach families to communicate more effectively.

ECT is almost exclusively used in the treatment of ______.

Flooding is based on extinction.

Anger is an inappropriate response to negative feelings such as frustration.

Drugs are never a solution to psychological problems.

According to Freud, the true meaning of a dream is revealed in its ______ content.