Exam 13: Therapies

A primary goal of family therapy is to ________.

Suicide hot lines and crisis intervention centers are all involved in ________ prevention.

A Consumer Reports survey of over 180,000 subscribers had a response rate of ______ to the section on mental health that assessed satisfaction and improvement in those who had received psychotherapy.

Research has shown that a therapist's warmth and understanding increase therapeutic success ________.

Tricyclics work by ________ the concentration of ________ in the brain.

Describe the general goals and reasons for using biological therapies, Also, identify three types of biological therapy and briefly describe the reasons for using them, their effectiveness, and the disadvantages associated with using them.

Asking a client to generate a hierarchy of anxiety-provoking situations associated with their fear would be characteristic of ________.

Jamie is suffering from a specific phobia of flying. He would be most likely to solve this problem with ________ therapy.

Ritalin is a drug typically used to treat ________.

Antidepressant drugs have also been shown to be effective in treating ________.

Most self-help groups are _____ gatherings of people who share a common problem and provide mutual support.

Tyler has recently developed a drug abuse problem. He is most likely to be successfully treated by ________.

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

________ prevention identifies high-risk groups and helps detect maladaptive behavior in those groups, in order to treat it promptly.

Antipsychotic medications are _____ for schizophrenia, but not _______.

Gender stereotypes may be avoided best in treatment by therapists _____.

Emma and Faye decide to attend couples therapy. Their therapist tells them to share their inner feelings, and to listen and understand their partner's feelings before responding to them. This therapist is using ________.

All of the following are potential side effects of antipsychotic drugs except that they ________.

Phenothiazines are antipsychotic drugs.

Client-centered therapy and psychoanalysis are examples of ________ therapies.