Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Let's say that you have a strong fear of flying. To treat this fear, your therapist asks you to enter a plane and fly until you are no longer showing anxiety. This treatment technique is based on the behavioural principle of

A client is in therapy to reduce anxiety caused to them by highway driving. The client's therapist uses a method in which a new response that is incompatible with anxiety is conditioned to the anxiety-arousing CS. The therapist is using ___________ to treat the client of their anxiety.

While listening to his patient talk about her favourite memories from childhood, Dr. Yang begins to notice that whenever his patient's thoughts approach her sister, she quickly changes the topic and talks about something else. When Dr. Yang begins probing her memories and thoughts about her sister, his client starts missing therapy appointments often cancelling without notice. This defensive manoeuvre is known as _________________.

Note the similarities and differences of Rogers's and Perls's approaches to therapy. What factor may have accounted for the decline in popularity of Gestalt therapy?

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 avoid, but still treat the depression?

Counterconditioning is most similar to

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be useful in treating severe depression, but has also been found to relieve anxiety disorders.

Treatment for phobias using a classical conditioning approach involves exposure to the _______ in the absence of the _______, while using response prevention.

According to the humanistic theorist Carl Rogers, the "active ingredient" in therapy is ________ for which he identified three important and interrelated therapist attributes.

Which disorders have responded most favourably to Beck's cognitive therapy? What is the focus of the therapy in these disorders?

What technique would a psychodynamic psychotherapist use?

When considering the use of token economies, therapists almost always ask whether other, less painful approaches are available and whether the negative behaviour involved poses a serious risk to either the individual or society.

Based on research discussed in your textbook, what kind of relationship would you expect between cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and changes in brain function?

Your Gestalt therapist is about to suggest a new exercise for you try. Which of the following is she likely to suggest?

What skills are found in culturally competent therapists?

Let's say that you work for a drug company. You are trying to develop a new drug for the treatment of schizophrenia. Which of the following neurotransmitters are you likely to target?

You like the psychodynamic approach, but do not want to be in therapy for more than 20 sessions. Which of the following should you try?

Jake is staying in a large halfway house for recovering addicts. Every time he successfully finishes his chores around the house, helps a roommate, or does any other appropriate behaviour, he receives a token. These tokens can be later exchanged for privileges such as staying out past curfew or going to a movie theatre. This system is an example of

My therapist asks me to role-play by imagining my mother and playing her role. I am asked to alternate my mother's role with mine. What technique is my therapist employing?

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