Exam 15: Psychotherapy

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

Boris believes that everyone has to like him, or he is not loveable. This is an example of one of Beck's maladaptive thought patterns called _____.

_____ creates anxiety by pairing an unpleasant stimulus with a maladaptive behavior in order to decrease the behavior.

Which of the following components of active listening is INCORRECTLY matched?

Mood stabilizers are most often used to treat _____ disorders.

According to a(n) _____ therapist, an adolescent who is abusing drugs may be doing so because of maladaptive behavior patterns among various family members.

In _____, multiple people meet together to work toward therapeutic goals.

Which of the following is a component of psychoanalysis?

Which of the following is NOT a myth about psychotherapy identified in your text?

In aversion therapy, a form of classical conditioning, _____ compete(s) with the pleasurable associations someone experiences when he or she engages in a maladaptive behavior, like drinking or smoking.

An insightful awareness and ability to share another person's inner experience is called _____.

Traditional antipsychotics appear to _____.

If a patient falls in love with his therapist, this is likely a result of _____.

A biomedical treatment that uses repeated magnetic pulses target at strategic areas of the brain is called _____.

This is an outdated brain operation in which nerve pathways between the frontal lobe and the thalamus and hypothalamus are cut, in hopes of treating psychological disorders.

Jock paused for several minutes right after he started discussing his most recent interaction with his wife. Jock's analyst interpreted this as a sign that Jock's ego was trying to prevent him from revealing an unconscious conflict and asked Jock to discuss this recent interaction. The analyst was attempting to overcome Jock's _____.

Beck believes that _____ are among the most important thinking patterns that lead to depression.

If a client-centered therapist was upset by a client's verbal abuse of a spouse, which of the following might the therapist do?

The effectiveness of therapy can BEST be determined by _____.

Sizzle, an adorable puppy, is learning to shake hands. The trainer is giving Sizzle a treat each time she moves her paw in the desired direction. Each paw move in the desired direction is called ___________.