Exam 15: Psychotherapy

ECT is used primarily to treat _____.

_____ modeling combines live modeling with direct and gradual practice.

Barney read the script wrong three times in a row during this morning's show. He believes his career is over, and he is filled with self-hatred. Beck would say Barney is at risk for developing depression because he is engaging in _____.

Define psychotherapy. Discuss biomedical therapy and the eclectic approach to therapy. Describe the five goals of therapy, and state which approaches to therapy focus on each of these goals.

Dr. Novak is working with Hal, who is very shy. As Hal practices meeting and conversing with imaginary people during his therapy session, Dr. Novak provides feedback and rewards him for each behavior that would meet with approval in a real social setting. What's happening here?

Describe the six culturally universal characteristics of therapy. Discuss the differences in therapy found in individualist versus collectivist cultures.

Eudoxie covers her husband's alcohol-related absences by lying to his boss. A behavior therapist is MOST likely to say that Eudoxie's problem is _____.

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

In psychoanalysis, free association refers to _____.

A _____ has usually had four years of graduate school and one or more supervised internships; a _____ is a medical doctor who has completed a one-year internship and a three-year supervised residency in the biological and therapeutic treatment of mental disorders.

The nonjudgmental attitude and genuine caring that a therapist expresses toward a client is called _____.

Behavior therapists use classical conditioning techniques to decrease maladaptive behaviors by _____.

Community Mental Health Centers (CMHs):

Leandra is brought to a mental health clinic by a neighbor who reports that Leandra has been disoriented for days, and is unable to feed herself or find shelter. The clinic's psychiatrist is MOST likely to _____.

Lewis and Farrah are seeing a marriage counselor. The counselor role-plays appropriate requests and responses for getting each of their needs met, and then asks the couple to practice doing this themselves in order to resolve a mild problem. Over the next several sessions, they practice resolving harder and harder problems, with appropriate modeling from the counselor, as needed. This is called _____.

_____ is Ellis's approach to therapy

This is a stage in psychoanalysis in which a patient avoids the analyst's attempts to bring threatening unconscious material into conscious awareness.

Which of the following is NOT true of behavior therapy?

Behaviorists reply to criticisms of their treatment approach by saying, _____.

Define group therapies and describe three advantages of this kind of therapy. Differentiate among group therapy, self-help groups, and family therapy. Provide specific examples of the latter two therapies.