Exam 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Psychotherapists who are ____ tend to be the most expensive.

According to Freud,the events in dreams

Summarize what one should look for in a prospective therapist and what one should expect out of therapy.

John suffers from chronic anxiety.He tends to worry constantly and is uncomfortable in a wide variety of situations.He decides to seek therapy.John put considerable thought into what he wants to gain from therapy.John believes that if he learns why he is so anxious he will be better able to cope.Based on John's beliefs,he is most likely to seek a therapist that emphasizes the ____ approach.

Which of the following is NOT a true statement?

Brian has been feeling anxious and tense as his final exams approach.He schedules an appointment with his doctor to find out if there is something he can take to help him feel more relaxed and less anxious.If Brian's doctor prescribes a medication for the symptoms that Brian is experiencing,it would MOST likely be

Which of the following is NOT one of the three conditions Rogers believed was important to help create a supportive emotional climate for therapy?

Psychoanalysts often encourage transference so that clients can reenact relations with crucial people in the context of therapy.

According to behavior therapists,pathological behaviors

It is believed by some that all psychological disorders can be traced to some sort of biological malfunction,especially malfunctions in the nervous system.In other words,in a perfectly formed and perfectly functioning biological organism,there could be no psychological disorder.If this were true,then the "ultimate cure" for any psychological disorder would be a biomedical cure.Explain why this position does or does not make sense to you.

According to Carl Roger's ____________________ therapy,the climate in which therapy takes place in is more important then the process used by the therapist.

Which of the following is LEAST accurate concerning trends in mental hospitals in this country?

Behavioral therapists treat pathological symptoms as signs of an underlying problem whereas biomedical therapists think that the symptoms are the problem.

Which of the following statements is MOST accurate?

Which group of therapeutic drugs tend to exert their effect almost immediately,but also tend to have an effect that lasts a short length of time?

Which of the following statements is LEAST accurate?

The three general approaches to treatment of mental disorders include insight,or talk therapies,behavior therapies relying on the use of learning principles,and biomedical therapies.

Beth is so terrified of snakes that even walking on sidewalks covered with earthworms after a rain storm makes her feel anxious.Her behavioral therapist has been helping Beth overcome her fear by having her work through an anxiety hierarchy while she maintains a state of deep relaxation.In this case,her therapist is using

With regard to a therapist's sex,

Dr.Spann is a psychoanalytic therapist and over the past two weeks his patient has begun showing increasing hostility,and he often yells and becomes threatening when Dr.Spann offers her interpretations of the things that the patient says during therapy.Dr.Spann should MOST likely deal with the patient's behavior by