Exam 15: Psychotherapy

Antidepressant drugs are used to treat _____.

The displacement of thoughts, feelings, fears, wishes, and conflicts from past relationships onto new relationships is called _____.

Cognitive therapists assume that problem behaviors and emotions are caused by _____.

This type of group does not have a professional leader, and members assist each other in coping with a specific problem.

This is an approach to psychotherapy in which the therapist combines techniques from various theories to find the most appropriate treatment for the client.

According to the humanistic approach to therapy, the basic cause of psychological problems is _____.

The use of physiological interventions such as drugs, ECT, or psychosurgery to reduce the symptoms of a psychological disorder is called _____.

Blanche yells at her psychoanalyst, "You have never listened to me or understood anything I have said. You don't care at all what happens to me. I hate you!" Assuming this is not really true, it is MOST likely that Blanche is experiencing _____ in this stage of her therapy.

In dream analysis, a psychoanalyst will look for the ______ meaning that underlies the _____ content.

In Ellis's REBT, the letters ABC represent _____.

Hardy reported a dream in which he was riding as a passenger in the back seat of a driverless car. He experienced this dream as extremely frightening. His psychoanalyst suggested that Hardy might be feeling as though neither he nor anyone else is in charge of his life. This process would BEST be described as _____, in which the therapist's interpretation was meant to uncover _____.

Therapies defined as "talk therapies" include ___________.

_____ treats the family as a unit, and members work together to solve problems.

This is a gradual process of extinguishing a learned fear response by associating a hierarchy of fear-evoking stimuli with deep relaxation.

Beck practices _____, which attempts to change not only destructive thoughts and beliefs, but the associated behaviors as well.

Which of the following features of therapy is NOT culturally universal?

The main focus in behavior therapy is to increase _____ and decrease _____.

Which of the following statements about the applicability of psychoanalysis is FALSE?

In behavior therapy, _____ techniques use shaping and reinforcement to increase adaptive behaviors, and punishment and extinction to decrease maladaptive behaviors.

A major criticism of releasing patients with mental disorders from long-term state psychiatric hospitals is that _____.