Exam 13: Psychological Therapies

An important aim of community psychology is:

Client-centered therapy was founded by __________.

Free association occurs during psychoanalysis, when the patient talks freely about anything that comes to mind.

In rational emotive behavior therapy, the therapist takes a directive role challenging clients when they make "my way or nothing" statements.

Stephan gets a text message from his girlfriend saying that she will have to work overtime tonight. Stephan immediately assumes his girlfriend is seeing someone else at work. Beck would say that Stephan has engaged in what type of distorted thinking?

The belief that anxiety results from feelings and emotions repressed during childhood was proposed by _______.

Martha and Stan are newlyweds. They see a therapist because Martha is afraid of sexual intercourse. The therapist asks Martha exactly which acts make her anxious, constructs a hierarchy of those threatening acts, teaches her to relax, and asks her to imagine each threatening scene in the hierarchy and use the relaxation technique to reduce her anxiety as she imagines each scene from the bottom to the top of her hierarchy. The therapist is using _______.

Which of the following is a therapy based on the principles of classical conditioning?

The hidden meaning of a dream is the ____________ content, according to Freud.

You are a licensed therapist seeing a client who is afraid of elevators. What behavioral technique or combination of behavioral techniques might you use to treat such a person? Defend your choices.

According to Sigmund Freud, when you awaken in the morning and remember a dream, you recall the dream's ___________.

Describe the three-step process used in systematic desensitization.

The kind of therapy that involves talking things out with a professional is called __________________.

Devin's wife comes home angry from her job, and he immediately assumes that he has done something wrong. Such irrational thinking is an example of

Which of the following is one of the criticisms of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapies?

You are looking for a psychotherapist in the Yellow Pages. Your attention is drawn to an advertisement for a group practice described as eclectic. When you call the receptionist to ask for a description of the practice, what will you be told?

Rational Emotive Therapy classifies as a/an _______ approach.

________ refers to psychotherapy that is provided on the internet.

The psychoanalytic patient who lets her thoughts flow without interruption or fear of negative criticism from her therapist is using ______.

In general, antipsychotic drugs work by ______.