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

Generally speaking, for people in therapy, the more therapy the better.

People from ethnic minorities are more likely than European Americans to seek therapy.

Freud believed that dreams were determined by unconscious processes.

About ______ percent of those treated with lithium either fail to respond to it or cannot tolerate it because of its side effects.

Freud believed that dreams were made up of unconscious urges that were expressed as a form of ______.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of clients commonly seen by psychologists, according to your text?

Albert Ellis claimed that it is our beliefs about events, not the events themselves, that determine our emotional reactions.

Of the various antidepressant drugs, ______ are widely preferred because they are associated with less severe side effects.

The Gestalt technique in which clients undertake verbal confrontations between opposing parts of their personalities is called ______.

Psychodynamic therapists tend to focus on ______.

Humanistic-existential approaches focus on a client's past.

Token economies are a form of ______.

A behavioral alternative to systematic desensitization that relies on observational learning to treat a client's problems is called ______.

Researchers have found that after about six months of treatment, ______ percent of patients show clinically meaningful improvement.

Some people with bipolar disorder achieve good treatment results from ______.

______ relies on observational learning.

Traditional Latino and Latina culture values ______.

Describe the goals and methods of behavior therapy, and briefly describe at least three behavior therapy methods for reducing fears.

Adjustment requires that we ______ the objects and situations that frighten us.

Explain what psychotherapy is, describing its essential features.