Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

According to Stanley Sue and Nolan Zane (1987), the biggest cultural barrier to therapy for ethnic minorities is ________.

A major contributor to cognitive therapy for depression is ________.

The fact that certain forms of psychotherapy are better suited than others for treating specific types of psychological disorders is most relevant to which of the following important client characteristics?

The fact that vastly different types of therapies often produce similar outcomes has led some researchers to search for similar elements shared by each of the approaches that may account for their common successes. These elements are called

A therapist asks a client to begin sharing the various thoughts and feelings that are currently in the client's awareness, commenting on the changing process of what is appearing in the conscious mind. This therapist is using the therapeutic technique known as ________.

A therapist feels frustrated because her client has recently missed three of her last five appointments. If the therapist were to express these negative feelings to her client, this would best demonstrate Carl Rogers's important therapist characteristic of

One of the key assumptions of social skills training is that the skills deficits of a particular individual may be reflective of disordered relationships in the family system.

The ability to balance a broad knowledge of a particular culture with the individual characteristics and needs of a client who may differ from a stereotype is important to

How are free association and dream analysis used in psychoanalysis?

One of the problems associated with deinstitutionalization is related to the fact that the majority of hospital admissions involve people who have previously been hospitalized. This is called

As part of rational-emotive therapy, patients may be directed to ________.

The "D" in the ABCD of rational-emotive therapy stands for ________.

A client's therapist follows Ellis's rational-emotive therapy techniques in treating their clients. The therapist embodies the ABCD model as proposed by Ellis. The B in the model stands for the ___________ that underlies the way in which the client appraises an event.

Although all of the following are important components of psychoanalysis, _____________ is considered to be its most important overall therapeutic goal.

One of your friends feels very awkward when asking someone out on a date. You suggest that perhaps he should watch you and then try to copy your behaviour. Your suggestion is very similar to

Exposure therapies operate on the assumption that _____________ is the most direct way to reduce or eliminate a learned anxiety response.

All of the following were mentioned by Carl Rogers as important and essential therapist characteristics EXCEPT

The 'gestalt' in Fritz Perls's humanistic approach refers to ________.

Procedures that attempt to change disordered behaviour by removing or destroying brain tissue are called ________.

A 1977 meta-analysis by Smith and Glass concluded that the average person receiving psychotherapy showed more positive outcomes than 75 percent of non-treated individuals. Modern meta-analyses of the effectiveness of therapy have generated percentages that are _____________.