Exam 2: Assessment, classification, and Treatment of Abnormal Behaviour

Explain why professionals tend to overrepresent dangerousness.

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT)tries to teach clients methods for controlling their emotions.

A criticism of the DSM system is that it is too narrow in focus and ignores such factors as medical conditions and psychosocial problems.

Matt goes to a therapist to help overcome his fear of snakes.The therapist helps Matt become deeply relaxed through the use of progressive relaxation.Matt is then exposed to actual fear-evoking stimuli involving snakes while trying to maintain his relaxed state.The therapist begins with the least distressing stimuli in a hierarchy and progresses to more distressing stimuli until Matt can maintain his relaxed state when exposed to even the most distressing stimuli in the hierarchy,which involves draping a large snake over his shoulders.This process is called ________.

Eclectic therapy has been a growing movement in psychotherapy in recent years.

Each of the following is a concern regarding the use of ECT to treat depression EXCEPT ________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic attributes Carl Rogers believed a person-centred therapist should possess?

Which of the following is NOT true of family therapy?

Perhaps the most popular example of an analogue measure is the Behavioural Rating Scale.

Bianca's family is involved in family therapy.Their therapist suggests that individual family members have developed problems because their roles within the family have become too distorted to allow them to function adequately.The therapist analyzes the role played by each person in the family and explains how two family members have recently changed roles and met stiff resistance from other family members who want to maintain the family's stability by preserving the pre-existing roles of each family member.The therapist is using ________ family therapy.

Describe the philosophies,methods,and goals of humanistic therapies.

Discuss methods of observing brain activity without brain surgery.

André Dallaire,who attempted to murder former Prime Minister Jean Chretien,was found ________.

The attachment that a client develops toward the therapist and the therapy process is known as the ________.

An essential tenet of emotion-focused therapy is the elimination of intense or uncomfortable feelings.

Anti-anxiety drugs are most often known as ________.

Patient-advocacy groups and precedent-setting court cases have been required to establish important patient rights,such as the right to treatment in the least restrictive environment.

Psychotherapies are "talking therapies."

Diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders has been heavily influenced by European and North American thoughts.

________ conditioning involves the use of reinforcement principles to foster the learning of adaptive responses and to extinguish maladaptive responses.