Exam 15: Therapies

Traditional psychoanalysis stressed the need to gain insight into the unconscious forces that control us, while client-centered therapy focuses on helping their clients to

Which of the following achieve their effects by altering the electrical activity of the brain?

The reduced use of full-time commitment to mental institutions for the treatment of mental disorders is referred to as

Brief psychodynamic therapy is most closely related to which of the following?

Psychoanalysis made a major contribution to modern therapies by highlighting the importance of

A therapeutic program in which desirable behaviors are reinforced with tokens that can be exchanged for goods, services, activities, and privileges is called

Helping to guide clients to a deeper understanding of the origins of their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors is the goal of psychodynamic and humanistic therapies, both of which are considered __________ therapies.

When children are in the babbling stage of language development, they tend to repeat the particular speech sounds that attract the attention of their caretakers, while rarely repeating those speech sounds that do not receive attention from their caretakers. The fact that some speech sounds are repeated less frequently is due to the behavioral effect known as

Gamblers who believe in a "run of luck," "winning streaks," and "the dice being hot" are exhibiting which cognitive distortion?

Groups of people who share a particular type of problem and provide mutual support to one another are called __________ groups.

Which of the following based his existential approach on experiences he had as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp?

Both aversion therapy and exposure therapy are based on __________ conditioning.

Problem gamblers suffer from selective memory, attribution errors, and seeing luck as a trait, which are referred to as

Explain how Albert Ellis uses his A-B-C analysis in rational-emotive behavior therapy; list the three core ideas from which most irrational beliefs originate; and describe how REBT therapists would attempt to change these beliefs.

Which of the following group of techniques would be utilized in client-centered therapy?

A little more than 100 years ago, the first true psychotherapy was developed by

In a technique called role reversal, a husband who complained of an uncommunicative wife would

For those with major mental disorders, hospitalization is often used as therapy because it is

Jamie is a child who is afraid of the high diving board. Jamie's fear is treated through systematic desensitization using a rank ordered series of steps. This series of steps is known as

The goal of which type of therapy is to lead clients to a deeper understanding of the origins of their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors?