Exam 14: Treatment

Smith and Glass analyzed the results of several studies of the effectiveness of psychotherapy and concluded that those participants in psychotherapy outcome research who were actually given therapy did

In family therapy, the family unit is viewed as

Cognitive therapy is the most effective of all psychotherapies for treating depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia.

Research has repeatedly demonstrated that the success of psychotherapy is not dependent on the level of degree training a therapist receives.

First-generation antipsychotics work primarily by restricting the availability of the neurotransmitter ________________________, either by blocking receptors entirely or by inhibiting the neurotransmitter's release.

All behavior therapy techniques that are based on Wolpe's original insight that exposing a person to a feared stimulus under controlled conditions can reduce or eliminate the fear are called

In this new biological treatment, electrodes are implanted in various regions of the brain, and the electrodes are coupled to an external device that sends out stimulating electrical pulses.

Aside from integrative therapy, this type of therapy accounts for the largest percentage of clinical and counseling psychologists surveyed by Bechtholdt and colleagues in 2001.

All of the following are findings from research that investigated how therapies could be deemed efficacious, but not effective, EXCEPT:

These drugs are mildly sedating and may reduce anxiety symptoms, at least in the short term.

In this type of behavior therapy, one learns to substitute negative responses for positive ones when one wishes to stop engaging in a truly harmful behavior.

These drugs, used to treat bipolar disorder, have the advantage of being much less toxic than lithium, and patients do not seem to resist taking them as much as they do lithium.

Typically, these kinds of therapists see themselves as something closer to a teacher and the client as a student whose task it is to substitute adaptive patterns of behavior for maladaptive patterns.

According to these therapists, all the insight in the world is useless if it does not help to reshape behavior by substituting adaptive behaviors and associations for those that are maladaptive.

All of the following therapeutic techniques distinguish psychodynamic therapy from other modern therapeutic approaches, EXCEPT:

Observation that led to the development of Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy was that people with emotional disturbances tend to experience

_______________________ selectively block the reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin, in contrast to the tricyclic drugs which act on several neurotransmitter systems at once.

In this behavior modification technique, a person is rewarded with tangible, desirable goods, prizes, or privileges for engaging in desired behaviors and avoiding undesirable behaviors.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is controversial mainly because early versions of the therapy

According to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, which of the following populations is most at risk for increased suicidality while using antidepressants?