Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Your doctor has just prescribed a new drug for the treatment of your mental disorder. You're not sure what exactly the drug does, but you know it effectively raises the level of serotonin. Most likely, you are suffering from

Which of the following would best be classified as an example of competency-focused prevention?

A person receives a drug that blocks the activity of dopamine. It is most likely that this drug is an antipsychotic drug and that the person being treated has been diagnosed with _____________.

In Albert Ellis's ABCD model of emotional disturbance, the "A" stands for the ________.

What two therapeutic elements combine in the treatment of behaviour disorders?

Which of the following is somewhat unique in that it is often conducted in a group format, it sometimes incorporates role-playing, and it can be rather confrontational?

A client has been under a lot of stress lately. To ensure that stress does not take the better of them, the client approaches stress by increasing their personal resources and coping skills. This preventive approach is known as ___________.

According to Sue and Zane, the biggest cultural barrier to therapy for ethnic minorities is

A client is seeing an analyst for treatment of anxiety. After a few sessions, the client transfers feeling of intense affection and dependency to the analyst. This is known as ____________.

Brad's therapist is unconcerned with the reasons why Brad is always late and focused on how to change Brad's maladaptive behaviour of always being late. It is likely that Brad's therapist engages in which type of therapy?

You take on a new patient and all you know about this person is that they have received a therapy that included mindfulness in the past therapy in the past. Most likely, this patient's previous therapy is closest to

The basic principle behind systematic desensitization is

How is Gestalt therapy derived from Gestalt psychology principles?

Describe the psychoanalytic approach to therapy. In your discussion, be sure to include the major techniques and concepts of the approach.

When the empty-chair technique is used, the client ________.

Cristoforo has entered therapy to deal with anger toward his father, who is terminally ill. Cristoforo knows that he has a lot of unfinished business with his father, but he doesn't feel that he can address those things now that his father is dying. Cristoforo's therapist asks him to role-play the conflict between the two sides of himself. First he is to imagine the fearful part of himself in the empty chair before him and have the angry part express itself; then he is to switch chairs and have the fearful part explain why it doesn't feel able to confront Cristoforo's father while he is sick. Cristoforo's therapist is a ____________ therapist.

Nadine wants to ask Ramon out on a date but is afraid he will say "no." According to Ellis's theory, Nadine is not really afraid of Ramon saying "no," but rather ____________________.

One of your patients is suffering from a severe disorder and nothing else has worked. Consequently, you recommend a cingulotomy. Most likely, your patient was suffering from

Carl is involved in a therapy group in which he is frequently asked to role-play various people and even inanimate objects in order to gain more access to feelings from which he has been cut-off. The therapist facilitating the group is rather imaginative when suggesting activities for the group and has been known to be challenging every now and then. Carl's therapy group is most likely based on the principles of

Interestingly, it may not matter what type of therapy you actually use. For a wide variety of disorders, outcomes are essentially the same. This finding has been called the