Exam 15: Therapy

Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates recommended changes in diet and exercise as a way of treating depression.

Psychoanalysis typically relies on:

Some potential side effects of ____________________ are confusion and memory loss.

Separation of the frontal lobes from the rest of the brain is what occurs during the procedure called:

A form of cognitive therapy in which the therapist acts as a kind of cross-examiner, verbally assaulting the client's irrational thought processes is ____________________.

The person who developed the humanistic approach to therapy, known as client-centered therapy, was:

Crystal has had several episodes of severe depression, but for the past week, she has been euphoric and hyperactive and she hasn't slept for the past 4 nights.Her family is concerned, and they have brought her to a mental health clinic for treatment.If the doctor who sees Crystal prescribes medication to reduce her current symptoms, the medication that will most likely be prescribed is:

Which of the following is one of the potential side effects of Prozac (fluoxetine)?

Cingulotomy is sometimes used to treat

Cingulotomy involves:

When Rosemary was seven years old, her older brother jumped out from a hiding spot and grabbed her unexpectedly, just as she was about to go upstairs.As an adult, she is still terrified of stairs.Based on classical conditioning principles, a behavioral therapist would suggest the unconditioned stimulus behind Rosemary's phobia was:

The term "genuineness" is most closely associated with:

Patients who had undergone prefrontal lobotomies often experienced:

It has been estimated that psychological disorders may improve on their own as much as:

Social skills training is designed to increase adaptive behaviors using:

Explain how group therapy is conducted.What are some of the advantages that group therapy offers over individualized therapy?

Treatments designed to give clients self-knowledge into the contents of their thought processes are called ____________________.

Cognitive therapists believe it is direct experience, such as failure on a test, that produces disorders such as depression, not unconscious memories.

Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft are all types of:

When a therapist understands and accepts what the client is feeling, the therapist is displaying the quality of: