Exam 19: Mental Health Treatment

This kind of therapy is usually a relatively brief program that blends CBT with meditation techniques based on Buddhist practices.

Observation that led to the development of Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy was that people with emotional disturbances tend to experience

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.

Which of the following is NOT a class of antidepressant drugs?

Anxiolytic medications such as benzodiazepines and barbiturates mainly affect the neurotransmitter

The goal of cognitive behaviour therapy is insight, or accurate self-knowledge of unconscious motivations

The common factor of effectiveness known as therapist competence refers to the fact that

These drugs combine selectivity for the neurotransmitter norepinephrine as well as for serotonin.

Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy are generally effective more quickly than other modern therapeutic approaches

Flooding relies on this basic, non-associative learning process as a means of initially reducing the client's anxiety response

When a psychotherapist "prescribes" a self-help book to a patient as an adjunct to in person therapy sessions, he or she is engaging in

While navigating the anxiety hierarchy, the client simultaneously engages in relaxation exercises, such as progressive muscle relaxation, in a technique known as __________.

The use of drugs and other substances like nutritional supplements to treat psychological disorders and distress is called

This basic assumption underlies both systematic desensitization and flooding: Phobias are maintained by avoidance of the feared object or situation, and the solution is to compel the phobic person to face his or her fears directly

This biological treatment involves placing an electromagnetic coil on the scalp to send short electromagnetic pulses through the skull, gently stimulating the cerebral cortex.

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

Smith and Glass analysed the results of several studies of the effectiveness of psychotherapy and concluded that those participants in psychotherapy outcome research who were actually given therapy did

____________selectively block the reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin, in contrast to the tricyclic drugs which act on several neurotransmitter systems at once.

In ____________, a person is rewarded with tangible, desirable goods, prizes, or privileges for engaging in desired behaviours and avoiding undesirable behaviours.

In this behaviour modification technique, a person is rewarded with tangible, desirable goods, prizes, or privileges for engaging in desired behaviours and avoiding undesirable