Exam 18: Psychological Therapies

What is the basic activity that a client undergoing EMDR must do?

__________ antipsychotic medications are useful for addressing positive psychotic symptoms,while __________ antipsychotic medications are useful for addressing negative psychotic symptoms.

Interpersonal psychotherapy,which is related to traditional psychoanalysis,is particularly helpful for people suffering from __________.

While one can be a cognitive therapist,and one can be a behavioral therapist,there is no real way that the differences between these two theoretical backgrounds can be overcome to create a "cognitive behavioral" or "behavioral cognitive" therapist.

__________-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that faulty or irrational thinking leads to psychological problems,which in turn lead to unhealthy or irrational behaviors.

__________ therapy is a type of counseling that attempts to change actions associated with psychological distress.

Psychopharmacology is the study of how drugs affect the mind and behavior.

A __________ is a person with a psychological disorder who is being treated using a biomedical approach.

Cognitive __________,an important part of most cognitive techniques,requires the therapist to identify clients' automatic assumptions and irrational beliefs,then teach the client to identify these patterns on their own.After the unhealthy thinking patterns are identified,they can then be replaced with realistic,positive,and optimistic thought processes.

James was working at a job where his new boss was really grating on his nerves.He wasn't making that much more money at this new job,he had offers to go elsewhere,and he did not have any particular reason to stay at the job.Nevertheless,he continued working at this difficult and anxiety-producing job because he had been there for six years and did not want to "quit." He went to see a psychotherapist to help overcome the anxiety that he was feeling,and one of her first questions was,"is there anything positive that you can tell me about this job? You sound so unhappy there that I'm not sure I understand why you haven't left yet." James's therapist is giving him (a)__________,which is one of the key factors to why psychotherapy is usually successful.

Which type of psychotherapy is the best?

Which of the following psychological problem is EMDR used to treat?

Electroconvulsive therapy,because of its serious risks to sensitive tissue in the brain,is only used for the most severe cases of schizophrenia.

Interpersonal therapy is an offshoot and close relative of psychoanalysis.

Marius is attending counseling sessions with Dr.Carbin."I just don't seem to be attractive to the girls," Marius says.Dr.Carbin takes several minutes of their session to help Marius explore his believe that he's unattractive.She helps him identify his assumption based on the fact that a single girl declined a date,helps him realize that he is making this wide ranging assumption with very little evidence,and helps him come up with a more realistic thought.At the end of this work,Marius says,"Just because one girl didn't want to go out with me doesn't mean that another won't want a date!" Dr.Carbin has just used __________ to help her client.

DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation)is a new psychosurgical technique that helps reduce the symptoms of ___________ by stimulating neuronal activity instead of destroying small areas of cells in the brain.

__________ management is an operant conditioning strategy that involves altering the relationship between a person's actions and those actions' consequences to replace unwanted behaviors with desirable ones.

The study of clinical psychology is the same as the study of counseling psychology.The name difference reflects the different degree that is awarded to students in each discipline.

Wellbutrin and Cymbalta are examples of the newest kind of antidepressants,and they differ from past medications because in addition to affecting serotonin and norepinephrine,they also have an effect on __________.

Modern electroconvulsive therapy is used to treat __________.