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

Describe the philosophy and goals of behaviour therapy.

Terman developed several individually administered intelligence tests for children and adults.

Which of the following antidepressant drugs is neither a MAO inhibitor nor a tricyclic?

Therapists may not disclose confidential information about clients to third parties,even when their clients threaten violence to those third parties.

Describe the goals and methods of traditional psychoanalysis.

About ________% of patients persistently refuse treatment.

Some therapists believe negative emotions such as anxiety and depression are not directly caused by troubling events that people experience,but,rather,by the ways in which they interpret these events.

The insanity defence is used in a large number of cases,and usually successfully.

The ________ approach holds that psychological tests reveal signs of reasonably stable traits or dispositions that largely determine the individual's behaviour.

Lithium carbonate has shown remarkable success in treating ________.

In person-centred therapy,the therapist is ________.

The MMPI is a(n)________ test.

Daphne agrees to keep a record of how many times she has urges to engage in self-injurious behaviour.This form of gathering information is __________.

Operant conditioning is based on the assumption that what happens after a response is emitted is more important than what precedes the response.

Discuss the nature and value of psychological tests.

People must be judged to be both mentally ill and to present a clear and present danger to themselves or others in order for them to be psychiatrically committed.

The Tarasoff ruling carries force of law nationally.

An emotion-focused therapist acts as a (n)__________.

Describe computer-assisted therapy and its reported benefits.

The behavioural Approach Task is used to help clients deal with ________.