Exam 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

After a long period of controlled trials, the FDA approves a drug for the treatment of school-aged boys with ADHD. After it is approved, doctors are permitted to prescribe it:

Diana is a bright student, but she procrastinates. She puts off writing term papers and gets incomplete grades from her teachers which eventually become F's. Diana's therapist has her write down her thoughts about work, read the thoughts as if someone else had said them, and then write a rational response to each one. The treatment method used to help Diana deal with her problem is:

The tendency for journals to publish studies that have positive findings, rather than negative or ambiguous results, is called:

One of the disorders discussed in Chapter 15 is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Define obsessions and compulsions. According to your textbook, what brain abnormality may be associated with OCD? Because OCD appears to involve a biological abnormality, is a biological treatment most appropriate? Support your answer with information from the PET-scan studies of people taking Prozac or receiving cognitive-behavior therapy with no medication.

Who would likely benefit most from taking lithium carbonate?

In a recent study (mentioned in your textbook) regarding people with aggressive outbursts, the group that received ___________ improved the most.

Eloise is trying to avoid thinking about the near-fatal car accident that she was in last year. She hasn't been able to drive to that part of the city since the accident. Her therapist has recommended that Eloise participate in exposure treatments, specifically "flooding." Describe what this experience will entail, based on your knowledge of behavior therapies.

Therapeutic influence, and sometimes coercion, is believed to be responsible for the huge number of people diagnosed in the 1980s and 1990s with:

The ________ school of therapy has, as one of its primary goals, self-acceptance and self-fulfillment for a client.

Antipsychotic drugs are no longer being prescribed "off label" for people with nonpsychotic disorders.

After seeing her therapist for a month, Kenya feels that they share a bond based on mutual understanding that is helping her work through her problems. This bond is referred to as:

Who of the following was a humanist therapist?

________ would be most likely to encourage a client to test her beliefs against the evidence, because depression is often caused by misinformation and unproductive beliefs.

________ is more effective than any other treatment for agoraphobia.

Which of the following is an element of psychodynamic therapy?

A family therapist would be most likely to agree that:

Which of the following therapists is associated with family therapy?

The primary goal of _______ is to find meaning in life and accept inevitable losses.

The benefits of drug therapy are proclaimed in magazines and on television commercials, but there are some disadvantages, too. Discuss, in detail, the five limitations of drug therapy.

Antidepressant drugs are also known as neuroleptics.