Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

An important difference between traditional and brief psychodynamic therapy is that brief psychodynamic therapy ________.

In the 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange, Alex, a violent, irresponsible juvenile, is subjected to an experimental treatment to make criminals sick at the very suggestion of violence or conflict. A chemical substance that induces nausea is injected into Alex's body while he watches violent films; this kind of approach is called

How do anti-anxiety drugs achieve their effects? Do they have any drawbacks?

One of your new patients is suffering from a severe disorder. All you know about this person is that they have received a ECT. Most likely, they were suffering from

Who is MOST likely to not seek mental-health services and drop out of treatment if such services are sought?

Let's say that you have a strong fear of flying. To treat this fear, your therapist wants to use a technique based on extinction. She should choose

Dr. Axworthy is conducting a test of a new treatment for borderline personality disorder. One randomly determined group of people suffering from the disorder receives the new treatment. To control for client expectations, another group receives a psychotherapy treatment that has consistently been shown not to be effective. Which of the following most accurately classifies this second group of study participants?

The impetus for the deinstitutionalization movement came from

Seligman's "Consumer Reports" survey found what regarding the utility of psychotherapy?

A doctor is an expert in treating clients for stress-reduction. The doctor's methods include meditation techniques: clients develop a tranquil state by focusing on their sensations, thoughts, and feelings. The doctor encourages clients to develop a state of ___.

"Third wave" cognitive-behavioural approaches incorporate mindfulness as a central objective of behaviour change, and include all of the following EXCEPT ________.

The ability to enable people to cope with current difficulties and to increase personal coping resources to deal with future problems is a potential advantage most strongly associated with ____________ treatments for psychological disorders.

Modelling plays the most important role in which of the following therapies?

Systematic desensitization is based largely on the concept of _______________, which refers specifically to the process of learning a response that is incompatible with anxiety.

The 'deinstitutionalization' movement of the 1960s was when the primary focus of treatment was transferred from centralized mental hospitals to local mental hospitals.

"Third wave" cognitive-behavioural approaches build on the cognitive behavioural approach with the addition of ________.

The primary assumption behind the initial use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was that epilepsy and ____________ rarely occur in the same person.

What client variables are important to treatment outcome?

You have just finished reading an article on the use of virtual reality (VR) for the treatment of mental disorders. It seems to work very well. Most likely, VR was used for the treatment of

Her stepfather abused Samantha emotionally and physically. Now, as a young adult, she is working with a therapist to resolve some of her low self-esteem and relationship issues. Over the course of therapy, Samantha begins to feel great anger toward her male therapist, telling him how much she resents his control over her. She almost quits therapy because she begins to feel that he is too controlling and makes her feel so insignificant. Her therapist is able to show Samantha that she is acting irrationally and has experienced a ___________________ of her feelings to her therapist.