Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

What is the rationale for deinstitutionalization? What prevents it from achieving its goals?

Meta-analysis conducted to test the effectiveness of therapy provides evidence for

Antidepressant drugs work by decreasing the activity of certain neurotransmitters.

For your current mental issue, you've asked to see a humanistic therapist because you like the non-directive, empathetic approach. But you find that the therapist you are seeing is very directive and wonder if someone made a mistake. They assure you that your therapist is, in fact, a humanist. What kind of therapist are you seeing?

Which of the following individuals receives the most training in how to conduct psychotherapy as part of their education?

In contrast to a psychoanalytic therapy session, the perspective that focuses on the present and future instead of the past is the ____________________ perspective.

Which of the following therapeutic approaches is considered to be a brief therapy based primarily on the principles of psychoanalysis?

How do token economies work, and what evidence exists for their effectiveness?

A person with a Ph.D. or Psy.D. who has received five or more years of intensive training in psychotherapeutic techniques, research, and assessment is called a ________.

When working with a psychotherapy client who is from a different culture, Dr. Johnson uses her knowledge of the person's culture and ethnicity to work with the client, but is careful not to overgeneralize and blindly follow her stereotypes. Which of the following labels best describes Dr. Johnson?

No matter what the therapeutic technique is, characteristics that tend to contribute to the success of a therapy are

Helping people achieve great insight, which is an awareness of the underlying dynamics of their problems, is the primary therapeutic goal of

You are working for a drug company that has just designed a new drug-Ziffrin-that works in the same way as the SSRI Prozac. What process does Ziffrin target?

Many antipsychotic medications achieve their effects by blocking the activity of

Which of the following therapies would require that you to see a psychiatrist?

When a therapy client responds irrationally to his therapist as if the therapist was an important figure from his past, this is called _________.

ECT and MAO inhibitors are similar in that they both ________.

Susan has an anxiety disorder and has sought help from a therapist, Dr. Jones. Dr. Jones believes that Susan's anxiety is related to her unconscious fear of her unmet sexual impulses and that in order for Susan to get over her anxiety problem, she needs to have greater awareness of this unconscious dynamics. Dr. Jones appears to be trying to produce positive changes by fostering more insight and is most likely associated with the ______________ approach to therapy.

Which disorders do and do not respond favourably to ECT?

Theresa has an important job interview tomorrow. In the past, she has not appeared confident and wants to learn how to avoid that for this interview. Theresa asks her mother to play the role of a person being interviewed so that Theresa might learn how another person would respond to typical job interview type questions. Hopefully, Theresa will learn from her mother's example and successfully land the new job. This is an example of