Exam 14: Treatment

This behavior modification technique exposes clients to increasingly intense anxiety-provoking images known as the anxiety hierarchy.

In Wolpe's systematic desensitization technique, feelings of anxiety induced by the anxiety hierarchy are paired with this in order for the client to replace maladaptive anxiety symptoms.

In this biological treatment a generator the size of a stopwatch is implanted under the skin in the left side of the chest, to help the patient with autonomic nervous system function.

A therapist following Albert Ellis's rational-emotive behavior therapy would most likely utter which of the following statements during a therapy session?

The reason that a cognitive-behavior therapist would ask a client to keep a thought journal is so that the therapist can help the client understand his or her daydreams.

In terms of overall treatment of psychological disorders, this model is probably the best.

Barbiturates are mildly sedating and may reduce anxiety symptoms, at least in the short term, while not "knocking the person off his or her feet."

With a few exceptions, anxiolytic drugs currently in use generally belong to a single class of medications known as _______________________.

Despite some problems, pharmacotherapy was a revolution in psychotherapy because it initially offered a mainstream medical solution to psychological problems. Describe how anxiolytics, antidepressants, and antipsychotic medications deliver their effects.

This is a common practice in publishing medical articles, in which some authors make little to no contribution to the actual writing of the article.

If you begin therapy and your therapist seems to want to use "hypothesis-testing" techniques to correct irrational or inaccurate beliefs that might be triggering your emotional pain or dysfunction, you are likely seeing a

For a biomedical treatment to be efficacious, it must show itself to be superior to no treatment in

Though it is not necessarily more effective than CBT, behavior therapy is often said to be preferable for treating

All of the following statements about the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat severe depression are true, EXCEPT:

Flu-like symptoms including dizziness, weakness, nausea, fatigue, feelings of "unreality," loss of balance, light -headedness, and "electric-shock" sensations are part of

Paraprofessionals like suicide hotline operators sometimes achieve results superior to those of highly trained therapists like clinical Ph.Ds.

In psychoanalysis, the primary goal of dream work is to interpret the dream content based on

All of the following are aspects of psychotherapy that differ from other personal relationships, EXCEPT:

In comparison to using first-generation antipsychotics for treating schizophrenia, second- generation antipsychotics

Kirsch and colleagues' meta-analysis of data from clinical drug trials that were initially held from publication revealed that