Exam 14: Therapy

According to your text, behavior therapy has been found to be quite effective in dealing with ________.

"It is inappropriate for one person to control the behavior of another." This criticism of behavioral therapy addresses the issue of ________.

Stanley and Marcia are both very upset that their adult sons, Andres and Urie, are fighting and no longer speak to each other. "We must have been very bad parents if our sons don't communicate with each other," they say. Beck would say that Stanley and Marcia are engaging in the cognitive error called ________.

According to a psychodynamic therapist, the attaching of unresolved emotions and attitudes from past relationships onto the therapist is called ________.

A biomedical therapy that involves alteration of the brain to bring about desirable behavioral, cognitive, or emotional changes is called ________.

The most commonly prescribed class of antidepressant drugs are ________.

Melissa states to her therapist that she feels a great fear and hate towards her ex-husband. Her therapist then states, "So you dislike your husband and are afraid of him." This is an example of ________.

Which approach to psychotherapy emphasizes conscious processes and current problems?

In psychoanalysis, interpretation ________.

According to your text, negative self-talk can have which of the following outcomes?

One early meta-analytic review combined studies of almost ________ people and found that the average person who received treatment was better off than ________ percent of those who did not.

Define cognitive therapy and contrast Ellis's rational-emotive behavior therapy with Beck's cognitive-behavior therapy.

Rogerian therapists create a therapeutic relationship by focusing on the following important qualities of communication:

Describe four concerns that impact the mental health of women, stating why each increases a woman's potential need for psychiatric treatment.

State the basic assumption underlying humanistic therapies. Briefly describe the four qualities of client-therapist communication advocated by Rogers.

A Japanese therapy designed to help clients develop personal guilt for having been ungrateful and troublesome to others, and to develop gratitude toward those who have helped them is known as ________.

While she was asleep last night, Evelyn dreamt of driving down the road in a car with no steering wheel. This actual story that she experienced represents the ________ content of her dream.

Describe criticisms and successes for each of the following types of therapies: psychoanalytic, cognitive, humanistic, and behavioral. State the overall effectiveness of therapy. If you were to want or need therapy, discuss why you would choose one type over other types of therapy.

Which of the following feature of therapy is culturally universal?

In Aaron Beck's proposed cognitive triad, a person may develop symptoms of depression due to ________.