Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

All mental-health professionals must graduate from psychology graduate school program with either a master's degree or a Ph.D.

You are in therapy and your therapist asks you to imagine your mother in an empty chair next to you. You are instructed to carry on a conversation in which you play both yourself and your mother. Your therapist is probably a _______ therapist.

You are an administrator for a large psychiatric hospital. A new patient has just arrived with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. You should assign this patient to a therapist who specializes in

Spontaneous remission refers to the fact that symptoms of psychological problems sometimes improve without any treatment. Your textbook discusses a method that was used to attempt to compare the rate of spontaneous remission to the rate of successful treatment reported by psychotherapists. What was found?

A client is working with a therapist to treat their depression. The therapist points out how most of the reactions appear to be produced by thoughts such as, "because the partner broke up with me, no one will ever love me!" The therapist helps the client to identify when this previously automatic thought is present and suggests that they come up with some way of challenging this conclusion. The client most likely has a therapist who is using ________.

A therapist asks her client to begin sharing the various thoughts and feelings that are currently in her awareness. This continues for several minutes, with the client commenting on the changing process of what is appearing in her conscious mind. This therapist is using the therapeutic technique known as

Drs. Alice, Hatter, Hart, Gryphon, and King are arguing about which therapeutic approach is most effective with clients. They all use different approaches, including psychodynamic, humanistic, rational-emotive, behavioural, and Gestalt therapies. Overhearing them, Dr. March says that research shows that widely differing therapies all have similar efficacy. Some would say Dr. March has given the group the

In discussing the effectiveness of behavioural therapy, cognitive therapy, and humanistic therapy with a colleague, she suggests that the outcome is related to the dodo bird verdict. What does she mean?

When discussing token economies, a common example is such positive reinforcement systems have been used to treat people with

Though they are usually considered to be quite different, the psychoanalytic and the humanistic approaches to psychotherapy are similar in that

Treating anxiety symptoms by presenting a feared stimulus (such as a dog or heights) and preventing the target person from avoiding that stimulus is typical of _____________ therapies.

A therapist takes a moment to paraphrase what he has just heard his client say in a way that accurately captures the feelings the client was experiencing. In client-centred therapy, this would be considered an example of reflecting, and this technique is often used to foster the important therapist characteristic of ____________.

When Lloyd receives his final grade in calculus, he is upset to see that he earned a D, rather than the B he expected. He spends the afternoon berating himself for not doing better on the final exam. In this case, the poor grade is the

Which of the following is NOT a client factor that affects psychotherapy outcomes?

According to the text, the two elements that are combined in the treatment of behaviour disorders are a helping relationship and some kind of technique or intervention.

Mary has been working with a therapist because she has felt very confused and unsure about herself for the past few years. Mary's therapist tends to be very nondirective and devotes a great deal of the session to allowing Mary to explore her identity, wants, and dreams for the future. The therapist rarely gives direct advice and instead is primarily interested in helping Mary clarify her own ideas and feelings. Mary's therapist is most likely associated with the ____________ perspective of psychotherapy.

Cathy has been seeing a therapist for a month. The therapy sessions focus on showing Cathy that she can control her actions and how she should take responsibility for her behaviour. Most likely, her therapist is coming from a ________________ perspective.

You are advising a client on the type of therapy to seek out for the effective treatment of his borderline personality disorder. The best treatment you could suggest would be

Resistance and transference are similar in that both of these phenomena are ultimately addressed by ________.

Although they can be quite different from one another, the basic goal of all therapies is to