Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

When a therapy client responds to his therapist as if the therapist was an important figure from his past, ____________ is said to occur.

One difference between drug therapies and psychotherapies may be that psychotherapies ________.

Meta-analysis of brief psychodynamic therapy outcome studies indicated that

According to Carl Rogers, the most important curative agent in psychotherapy is

How do the three classes of antidepressant drugs achieve their effects biologically? How effective are they compared to/combined with therapy?

Systematic desensitization differs from exposure therapy in that systematic desensitization is based on the principle of extinction while exposure therapy is based on the principle of counterconditioning.

Part of systematic desensitization is creating a(n) ________________, in which 10 to 15 scenes are arranged in roughly equal steps from low-anxiety to high-anxiety.

During your therapy session, your therapist believes that you have reached a stage called resistance. Most likely, your therapist believes in

Let's say that you have a strong fear of flying. To treat this fear, your therapist asks you to imagine being in a plane and flying until you are no longer showing anxiety. Your therapist has just used the technique of

Some researchers argue that it is important to examine ________ in evaluating studies. That is, success should be measured by comparing clients to individuals within the normal range of responses on measures.

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

When Dr. Averil must prescribe an antidepressant, she tries to avoid using monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors because

Which of the following is true about programs that seek to prevent mental disorders?

In a randomized clinical trial, participants in the control condition may receive a placebo to ________.

The techniques of free association and dream analysis are similar in that both are used to

Avalon is seeing Dr. Tremaine for depression and anxiety. When she first visited him, she was worried that he would expect her to commit to years of therapy, but he said most of his clients require only 15 or 20 sessions. As they work together, Dr. Tremaine focuses on helping Avalon understand that she does not have to interact with other people in the dysfunctional way her parents did. As she expands her repertoire of interactions with others, her depression and anxiety begin to lift. Dr. Tremaine is using

Two key therapeutic elements in the treatment of behaviour disorders are not only the therapy techniques but also the _________________.

Dr. Jordan specializes in dialectical behaviour therapy. Consequently, her clients will most likely have a diagnosis of

You are treating a patient for depression and have decided on drug therapy. However, your patient has a blood pressure problem. Which of the following drugs should you prescribe?

Which of the following psychosurgery procedures is occasionally used today as a last resort for severe depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder?