Exam 13: Therapies

The fatality rate for ECT is ________ for people taking antidepressant drugs.

Gestalt therapy is an outgrowth of the work of ________.

Antidepressant drugs have a number of unwanted and undesirable side effects.

Brain surgery performed to change a person's behavior and emotional state is known as ________.

Client-centered therapy was founded by ________.

Ritalin is a drug technically classified as a(n) ________.

Medication, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychosurgery are all types of ________.

Gestalt therapy is designed to help people ________.

Summarize the research regarding gender differences in treatments. Also, summarize the issues involved in cultural differences in treatments.

In 1988, the new drug ________ was put on the market as the first of a new class of antidepressant drugs.

Therapeutic approaches that are based on the belief that all normal and abnormal behavior is learned, and that the objective of therapy is to teach people new, more satisfying ways of behaving are ________ therapies.

A therapist challenges what she sees as her client's irrational and self-defeating beliefs. She uses persuasion, confrontation, challenge, commands, and theoretical arguments to challenge those beliefs. She is probably a ________ therapist.

People seeking extensive scrutiny of themselves or profound self-understanding are best served by ________ therapy.

No one knows exactly how ECT works.

A therapist combines relaxation training with a hierarchy of fears in aversive conditioning.

Rogers felt that it was most important for clients to gain insight about ________.

Identify and describe three types of major approaches to preventing mental disorders in terms of the goals and methods of each type.

Summarize the research on the effectiveness of various types of psychotherapy, and on the effectiveness of psychotherapy in general.

Which of the following is not one of the three current forms of prevention?

Psychostimulants are often used to treat severe depression.