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

According to your text,CASPAR is a(n)________.

We are able to correlate anxiety with the amount of electricity conducted across the skin.

Albert Ellis believed that irrational beliefs may be formed on the basis of early childhood experiences.

Ego analysis is the form of psychodynamic therapy originated by Freud.

Psychodynamic therapies tend to focus on ________ processes.

Anxiety and eating disorders are most likely to be treated with ________ drugs.

The most frequently cited meta-analysis of psychotherapy research was conducted by ________.

Meta-analysis has generally failed to support the efficacy of psychotherapy.

Therapists are not obligated by provincial laws to breach confidentiality,even in order to warn intended victims of threats of violence made against them by their clients.

Recent forms of psychosurgery involve ________ parts of the brain and do ________ damage than the prefrontal lobotomy.

Some therapists actively dispute their clients' most cherished beliefs.

________ drugs depress the level of activity in parts of the central nervous system,leading to decreased level of sympathetic nervous system activity.

Wakefield recently proposed that the term disorder be conceptualized as ________.

Deep brain stimulation has been approved for all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Deep brain stimulation has been approved for treatment of some disorders,but not depression.

Describe the features of the DSM system.

People can be psychiatrically committed because they are eccentric.

The DSM system is used to classify ________.

The DSM system assumes that all abnormal behaviour reflects biological causes or defects.

Spontaneity is a major advantage of the ________ interview.