Exam 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Although the technique is not new,_____ has recently been applied with some success to the treatment of people with schizophrenia.

Most therapists agree that personality disorders,including borderline personality disorder:

Which of the following therapies represents the best treatment for schizophrenia?

Assiyah,a therapy client,believes she is an unattractive person.Her therapist told her: "Go to a social gathering and ask out five different men." Assiyah did this,and each man agreed to go on a date with her.Her belief that she was unattractive then changed.Her therapist is using _____ with Assiyah.

Like some other biological treatment techniques,_____ was originally developed to treat the medical condition _____,but after use with psychological disorders was found to be effective in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression.

Panic disorder is best treated by:

Haloperidol and chlorpromazine are used to treat:

A psychiatric nurse:

In some cultures,it is more acceptable to say a person is "not feeling well" than to say the person "is feeling depressed." According to the discussion in your textbook,you would be correct if you assumed that cultures that use _____ probably have _____.

Tyresia is experiencing a depressive episode and undergoes cognitive therapy to treat her symptoms.If she were in therapy with Aaron Beck,she would most likely be asked to challenge her negative thoughts about:

The extensive use of _____ is largely responsible for the dramatic reduction in the number of individuals institutionalized for mental disorders in the latter half of the last century.

The reason newer antipsychotic drugs are as effective as they are,and the reason they have largely replaced the older drugs used to treat schizophrenia,is that they work on _____.Without this feature,their effectiveness would be about the same as the older drugs,and the side effects would be the same.

Imagine that you have gone to the university's counseling center.There you encounter a therapist who does not pass judgment on your behavior,encourages you to talk about your subjective experiences,and frequently attempts to paraphrase,or say back to you,what you have just said.This therapist is probably using:

What is the most common treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

Virtual reality environments are used in the treatment of phobias because:

Suicide is the _____ leading cause of death among adolescents.This statistic suggests that treatment with _____,while controversial,still shows more benefits than risks.

The goal of Freud's psychoanalytic approach to therapy was to:

When you go to your therapist in an attempt to overcome your fear of heights,she asks you to lie on a couch and relax while you imagine slowly climbing up the steps of a ladder.She is using:

This type of provider deals primarily with adjustment problems that do not involve mental illness:

Phoua has been severely depressed for the last year and has been hospitalized for the past three months because she is suicidal and a danger to herself.Many of the "first-line" or typical treatments for depression have not been effective for Phoua,including cognitive therapy and drug therapy.The form of treatment most likely to be effective for her is: