Exam 14: Therapies

Participant modelling works by having the client show others how to engage in a particular behaviour. The client then does not experience fear because he or she is focusing on demonstrating the behaviour.

The hierarchy of fear, used by therapists working with clients who are undergoing systematic desensitization, consists of

Which of the following types of groups is often not led by a trained, professional therapist?

Behavioural therapies are helpful for all of the following, except

Which therapy based on classical conditioning is especially successful in treating persons with obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is based, in large part, on

For the most part, advocates of biological therapies assume that mental disorders

The main problem with antidepressants is that they are

The basic techniques of psychoanalysis include all of the following, except

In "time out," children are removed from a situation in which they are misbehaving and then punished.

One of the underlying assumptions of cognitive-behavioural therapy is that our actions affect our feelings.

Discuss the use and present status of electroconvulsive therapy.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder has been successfully treated with the technique of exposure and response prevention, in which the individual is encouraged to engage in compulsive behaviour until it becomes extinguished.

Current theory suggests that the remarkable success of antipsychotic drugs in reducing schizophrenics' symptoms is due to the fact that these drugs

Jared asks Malenka to go to a movie, and she turns him down with a lame excuse. Jared thinks this is the most terrible thing to ever happen. He can't even imagine still going to the movie, or ever telling his friends about Malenka's refusal to go with him. Ellis would say the key to changing Jared's situation is to

All of the following have been shown to be effective in treating depression, except

Phoebe is involved in a therapy in which she must touch dirty objects and then try to delay her ritual of hand washing for longer and longer periods. Phoebe's obsessive-compulsive disorder is most likely being treated with

Relaxation training is a preliminary procedure for a client who is to undergo

What do behaviour therapies focus on that the other therapies do not?

Which of the following do psychoanalysts think are an especially good source of clues about unconscious desires and motives?