Exam 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

This class of drugs is primarily used to manage heart irregularities and hypertension, but it is also sometimes used to relieve acute anxiety.

What kind of psychologist is trained to help people cope with chronic illness or disability or recover from injury?

A family therapist would be most likely to agree that:

A therapist may inadvertently create new disorders in the client through undue influence or suggestion.

Graduated exposure, systematic desensitization, behavioral records, and skills training are methods associated with cognitive therapy.

________ is the process in which the client transfers unconscious emotions or reactions, such as emotional feelings about his or her parents, onto the therapist.

Cognitive models of therapy tend to focus on:

Which of the following is generally more important than the specific technique a therapist uses in determining the success of psychotherapy?

Cognitive therapy's greatest success has been in the treatment of mood disorders, especially depression.

Client-centered therapy was developed by:

Electroconvulsive therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation are primarily used to treat:

If a person is prescribed lithium carbonate, it is most likely that she has been diagnosed as suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The ________ school of therapy has as one of its primary goals the modification of irrational or unvalidated beliefs.

Several years ago, a news story reported that scientists had high hopes for new pills that would help people quit smoking, lose weight, and kick their addictions. The pills supposedly worked by blocking pleasure centers in the brain that make people feel good when they smoke, overeat, drink liquor, or use other drugs. Based on what you have read in this section, what might you learn in a follow-up story two years later? Why?

Antipsychotic drugs offer little relief from which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia?

One of the most important predictors of successful therapy is the bond between therapist and client.

A person may have short-term success with antipsychotic or antidepressant drugs, but at least half of patients stop taking them, often because of the ________ of the medication.

Which view is consistent with the family-systems perspective?

If a person is suffering from schizophrenia, then a neuroleptic would be an appropriate drug to use in treatment.