Exam 14: Therapies

In the United States, men are less likely than women to seek treatment for psychological issues.

Only ____ states have passed laws for prescriptive authority for psychologists.

In interpreting a dream, a psychoanalyst would attempt to discover the dream's _________ content.

According to your textbook, analysis of several studies investigating the effectiveness of the self-help book Feeling Good suggests that self-help books probably have:

Starting in the 1970s, a program called Scared Straight exposed at-risk youth to the harsh reality of prison life. According to your textbook, which of the following is true about this program?

Sigmund Freud would agree that _______________ may be useful in treating a psychological disorder.

A drug that elevates the levels of norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain by inhibiting an enzyme that metabolizes these neurotransmitters would most likely be used to treat _____________.

Critiques of the empirically supported treatment approach are most likely to state that:

Who would benefit most from taking lithium?

A new drug that increases the activity of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is likely to:

One form of exposure therapy is called _____________, which requires the client to experience gradual exposure to anxiety provoking stimuli.

The rigorous testing of specific psychotherapies is difficult, in part because:

A student finds himself hating a professor because the latter reminds him of his abusive father. In psychoanalytic terms, the student is exhibiting _______.

In the middle of the 20th century, Walter Freeman and others infamously treated thousands of patients with a procedure known as _____.

Almost all psychologists agree with the empirically supported treatment approach.

Dr. Lee believes that all psychological disorders can be treated in much the same way as can physical disorders. He was most likely trained under the _______ model.

According to Freud, the ___________ of the dream refers to the hidden, symbolic meaning of the dream, which, if correctly interpreted, reveals the unconscious conflicts that created the nervous disorder.

Exposure therapy relies on which conditioning and learning principle?

The major goal of insight therapies is to give people __________.

Family therapists take a _____ approach, an orientation toward family therapy that involves identifying and understanding what each individual family member contributes to the entire family dynamic.