Exam 15: D: Therapies

Helping to guide clients to a deeper understanding of the origins of their thoughts,emotions,and behaviors is the goal of psychodynamic and humanistic therapies,both of which are considered __________ therapies.

A group of people who share a particular type of problem and provide mutual support to one another is known as a(n)________ group.

The brief psychodynamic therapy that was first developed to help people with depression by improving their relationships with others is called existential therapy.

An elementary school teacher practically ends classroom discipline problems by giving students "chances" in a lottery to be held at the end of the week for some small toy.The students have chances taken away if they break various rules.The students are participating in an operant conditioning system known as a(n)__________.

Major tranquilizers are also referred to as __________ drugs.

Rogers stated that a good therapist should be able to see and feel what the client is experiencing,a quality he called unconditional positive regard.

Felipe is asked by his therapist to relax and talk about any thoughts that come into his head,letting his thoughts move freely from one idea to the next.Felipe's therapist is using the Freudian technique known as __________.

Adapting traditional theories and techniques to meet the needs of clients from non-European ethnic and racial groups and treating members of racial and ethnic communities as individuals are abilities exhibited by __________ therapists.

Therapists in the positive psychology movement use techniques designed to enhance personal strengths rather than "fix" weaknesses.

Cognitive therapy has been found to be as effective as drugs for treating many cases of depression.

Humane treatment for the mentally ill was brought about by the work of Philippe Pinel,who literally unchained the "patients" in European asylums in 1793.

During the Middle Ages,a grain fungus,which was a natural source of LSD,produced psychotic symptoms in unsuspecting people when they ate rye bread tainted with it.This psychotic-like condition caused by the fungus-poisoning was called __________.

Victor Frankl based his logotherapy on experiences he had as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.

Describe whether each of the following therapies-psychoanalysis,brief psychodynamic therapy,client-centered therapy,existential therapy,Gestalt therapy,behavioral therapies, Beck's cognitive therapy,and Ellis' REBT-would be: (1)classified as either insight therapies or action therapies and why; (2)whether each of the therapies would be considered directive or non-directive and why; (3)whether each therapy is usually conducted individually or conducted both individually and in groups; and (4)list the major strength of each type of therapy.

In counseling a friend,you are most likely to experience the "Yes,but" game,according to Eric Berne,if you use reflection.

Clients assume responsibility for solving their own problems,while the therapist assists,but does not guide or give advice in therapies that are considered __________.

Discuss the history of how mental illness has been treated from the Stone Age,through the Middle Ages until Pinel's work in France,include the approaches used and which mental disorders that their "patients" were probably suffering from.

You are preoccupied by the negative thought that "you will fail every test you take in college." How could you use thought-stopping to reduce the occurrence of this negative thought?

Clients who like their therapists make more progress during therapy than those who do not like their therapists.

Although Micah made a good grade on her psychology test,received a pay raise at her part-time job,and had her car repaired for very little money,she dwells on the rebuff of a friend.According to Aaron Beck,Micah is illustrating the cognitive distortion known as __________.