Exam 15: Therapies.

Amy is having a small party in her apartment.Her next door neighbor asks her if she could turn down the music because she has to get up and work tomorrow.Amy tells her friends that "the old woman next door is such a pain that I'm going to turn the music up even louder." According to REBT, Amy

Fears can be unlearned by approaching feared situations in a series of ordered steps called

Skilled management of a psychological emergency is referred to as

Because of a gambling addiction, Maria is seeing a cognitive therapist, who will most likely help her to

Two-year-old Dennis is outside with his mother when he begins pulling the dog's ears.When he refuses to stop, his mother picks Dennis up and carries him back into the house and away from their dog.Dennis is experiencing

Although the drug clozapine (Clozaril)can relieve the symptoms of schizophrenia, two out of 100 patients taking the drug suffer from a potentially fatal blood disease.

Stimulus control is an operant conditioning procedure in which

Which is NOT a preparation for using desensitization?

Aversion therapy has been used to successfully treat all of the following EXCEPT

Many of Freud's first patients had physical symptoms, such as paralysis or numbness, for which no physical causes could be found.Freud called this condition

Regarding virtual reality exposure, which of the following statements is FALSE?

In working to solve a client's problems, an important tool for any therapist is the caring relationship that unites the therapist and the client, which is referred to as the

To find out if therapy works, researchers randomly place clients in an experimental group that receives therapy and a control group that does not receive therapy, which is known as the __________ control group.

Currently, psychological services are available through

Attempting to control a habit by associating it with something disturbing in one's imagination is a behavior technique called

As a modern procedure, trepanning, also called trephining, involves

Lindsay fails an accounting test.Lindsay now believes that she should probably change to a non-business major, that she should quit her part-time job at the bank, and should resign as the treasurer for the business club, even though she is quite good at all of these activities.Lindsay's behavior exemplifies the distortion of thinking cognitive therapists call

Jan has a fear of riding across bridges.In order to get her over her phobia, she is asked to imagine a series of increasingly distressing images involving her riding in a car across increasingly longer bridges.The most distressing being imagining herself driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge to her cousin's house.This procedure is a type of

Marcus has schizophrenia and his doctor has recommended that he change to a new drug that can reduce his hallucinations and delusions without the lethal risk or side effects of other similar drugs.His doctor will most likely be prescribing

Which of the following types of drugs are used to reduce hallucinations and delusions?