Exam 13: Therapies

A client lies on a couch, with the therapist sitting out of sight, behind him. The therapist gets to know the client's problems through free association, and positive and negative transference. The therapist encourages the client to "work through" his problems. This is ________ therapy.

Making someone who is afraid of snakes handle dozens of snakes in an effort to get him to overcome his fear is called ________.

Hollywood actress and model Brooke Shields was diagnosed with the __________ type of depression.

Recently evolving dynamic therapies ________.

Television ad campaigns aimed at educating people about AIDS before they are exposed to the disease are all forms of ________ prevention.

Antipsychotic drugs can sometimes cure schizophrenia.

Martha and Stan are newlyweds. They see a therapist because Stan is afraid of sexual intercourse. The therapist asks Stan exactly which acts make him anxious, constructs a hierarchy of those threatening acts, teaches him to relax, and asks him to imagine each threatening scene in the hierarchy and use the relaxation technique to reduce his anxiety. The therapist is using ________.

Recent trends in therapy have been toward ________.

Using a hierarchy of fears to help a client eliminate a phobia is most typical of ________.

Stress-inoculation therapy involves ________.

In Native American culture, not making eye contact and looking downward during a conversation is a sign of ________.

Valium is technically classified as a(n) ________.

Which of the following is not true?

Prefrontal lobotomies are rarely used today.

The vast majority of people who seek therapy go into traditional analysis.

Antipsychotic drugs tend to relieve ________ of schizophrenia.

Rogers felt therapists must express true acceptance for clients, no matter what they may say or do. He called this process of acceptance ________.

Family planning and genetic counseling are two forms of ________ prevention.

Sharon has been seeing a therapist because she cannot adjust to her new husband's children from a previous marriage. Although she dearly loves her husband, she feels awkward and embarrassed in front of the children. The therapist suggests that she bring her husband and his children with her to the next session so she can see them interact. Sharon is probably seeing a ________.

Modeling has been used successfully for each of the following except to ________.