Exam 13: Therapies

Julian seeks professional help for his fear of spiders. In stages, his therapist shows him pictures, movies, and models of spiders; then a real dead spider, a small live spider in a jar, several live spiders in a jar, and finally a live spider loose in the room. At each stage, he made sure that Julian was fully relaxed. This technique is known as ________.

Deinstitutionalization has been largely successful due to the abundance of follow-up care available in the community.

Practitioners of Beck's cognitive therapy are much ________ challenging and much ________ confrontational than practitioners of rational-emotive therapy.

Which of the following classes of antidepressant drugs has the fewest side effects?

Cognitive therapists are much more challenging and confrontational than rational-emotive therapists.

Lithium is a naturally occurring ________.

Neo-Freudians differ from traditional Freudian approaches to therapy in that they encourage clients to focus on the ________ and they favor ________ their patients.

Psychotherapies that emphasize changing clients' perceptions of their life situation as a way of modifying their behavior are called ________ therapy.

Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of institutionalization with deinstitutionalization.

________ prevention is aimed at improving the overall environment so that new cases of mental disorders do not develop.

Large, state-run mental hospitals have a history of being ________.

The psychoanalytic patient who lets his thoughts flow without interruption or inhibition is using ________.

Which of the following techniques would be most appropriate for treating alcoholism or smoking?

Couple therapy for one partner of a couple is just as effective as it is for both of them.

Most couple therapists concentrate on ________.

Research indicates that psychotherapy is ________.

Allen is suffering from depression. He is most likely to successfully treat his depression with ________ therapy.

If you wanted to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, you would be most successful by prescribing a(n) ________.

The main objective of ________ prevention is to help persons adjust to life after release from a mental hospital.

Surveys indicate that about ________ percent of homeless people are mentally ill.