Exam 15: Therapies

Which therapy tends to be more concerned with their clients changing harmful thinking patterns and less concerned with their clients gaining insight into the cause of their problems?

Discuss how one should evaluate a therapist, including his or her personal characteristics, the therapeutic alliance established, and the danger signals to watch for in therapy.

In psychoanalysis, resistance was thought by Freud to be important because it

Regarding client-centered therapy, which of the following statements is FALSE?

A procedure for systematically achieving deep relaxation of the body is known as

In the A-B-C analysis of rational-emotive behavior therapy, the letters stand for

Victor Frankl based his logotherapy on experiences he had as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.

Rational-emotive behavior therapy attributes negative emotions to

Cognitive therapy is at least as effective as drugs for treating many cases of depression with people who have adopted new thinking patterns being less likely to become depressed again.

Three-year-old Timmon misbehaves, and his mother places him in a chair facing the corner of the room for 5 minutes until he clams down and behaves more appropriately. This is an example of the use of

Institutional settings, such as mental hospitals, halfway houses, schools for the intellectually disabled, programs for delinquents, and ordinary classrooms, make use of reinforcement, in the form of symbolic rewards that can be exchanged for real rewards. These symbolic rewards are called

To show the effectiveness of therapies, which of the following would be used as the control group?

The Buddhists' state of "radical acceptance" is similar to the view that the client must fully accept the challenge of making the courageous choices needed to change his or her life that is advocated by

Paul, an 18-year-old college student, is playing online blackjack and credits his skill for the wins and blames his losses on bad luck. Paul is exhibiting which of the cognitive distortions that lead to gambling addictions?

While client-centered therapy seeks to uncover a "true self" behind a screen of defenses, existential therapy emphasizes

Describe the technique known as EMDR, including a description of the procedure, who developed it, what conditions it is used to treat, and how this technique is believed to work.

A form of therapy that encourages one to become aware of emotions in the "here and now" and to rebuild thinking, feeling, and acting into connected wholes is

Curtis is undergoing systematic desensitization to overcome his fear of heights. Relaxing to each step in the his fear hierarchy allows Curtis to gradually undergo

Client-centered therapy is based on the work of

Gestalt therapists would encourage people to