Exam 13: Therapies

Aversive conditioning is aimed at ________.

Behavior contracting is a(n) ________ therapy technique.

Jerry is 22 years old and still gets cavities from eating too many sweets. Jerry's dentist trains him to think of the pain of having his teeth drilled each time he reaches for a piece of candy. The dentist is using ________ to cure Jerry's excessive intake of sweets.

Bob has been under a physician's care for depression. Although his symptoms have completely disappeared, he has been suffering some nausea, insomnia, headaches, anxiety, and impaired sexual functioning. Bob's doctor has probably been treating him with ________.

Client-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, and psychoanalysis are examples of ________ therapies.

In treating major depression and preventing a recurrence, ________ work(s) best.

An estimated ________ million Americans suffer some kind of psychological problem.

Lithium appears to work by affecting ________.

Rational-emotive therapy is a type of ________ therapy.

Antipsychotic drugs can have a number of unwanted and undesirable side effects.

The best description of the current status of deinstitutionalization is that ________.

Unilateral ECT produces ________ side effects and is ________ effective than traditional ECT.

Which of the following types of treatment is not a biological treatment method?

Each of the following is true except ________.

________ of people who seek therapy go into traditional psychoanalysis.

The effects of neurosurgery ________.

Behavior therapists look upon anxiety as a(n)________.

Each of the following is true of ECT except ________.

Which method is most appropriate for treating fears and phobias?

Therapy that depends on identifying and changing inappropriately negative and self- critical patterns of thought is ________ therapy.