Exam 15: Psychological Therapies

Every time Brooklyn cleans her room properly and makes the bed, she receives a marble. When she accumulates 100 marbles, she can get the new video game she wants. What type of behavioral program are Brooklyn's parents using?

Collins uses exposure-based therapies to treat many of her patients. Client A is actually confronted with the situation that causes her anxiety, while Client B is asked to think about and visualize the frightening situation. Client A's treatment method would be described as __________, while Client B's treatment method is __________.

Which therapy depends on identifying and changing distorted thinking and unrealistic beliefs?

A goal of family therapy is to __________.

A technique for treating phobias and other stress disorders in which the person is suddenly exposed to the fear-provoking situation or object in an intense way and is prevented from making the usual avoidance or escape response is called __________.

Prefrontal lobotomy is one form of __________.

Your friend tells you that he sees a Gestalt therapist. You ask him to describe what might happen in one of his therapy sessions. Which of the following is his most likely answer?

What is the primary goal of person-centered therapy?

A contingency contract is a formal written agreement in which the goals of behavioral change, reinforcements, and penalties are clearly stated.

Psychoanalysis is a therapy technique designed by __________.

A new therapeutic technique known as deep brain stimulation (DBS) is showing promise in the treatment of __________.

Carl Rogers's person-centered approach is considered __________ because the client actually does all the real work, with the therapist merely acting as a sounding board.

The first truly organized effort to house mentally ill persons began in England in the sixteenth century and took place at __________.

Today's electroconvulsive shock therapy is often quite useful in the treatment of __________.

Modern psychoanalysts differ from traditional Freudian psychoanalysts in that they focus on the __________ as a motivating force of behavior, and they favor __________ their clients.

In __________, an unpleasant stimulus is paired with a particular behavior in order to make that behavior less likely to occur.

What do behavior therapists see as the cause of abnormal or undesirable behaviors?

List the physical side effects associated with antidepressant drugs.

The use of learning techniques to modify or change undesirable behavior and increase desirable behaviors is called __________.

List the three basic goals of any cognitive-behavioral therapy.