Question 1

Your textbook authors outline four factors that can lead to increased harm to clients during psychotherapy. Describe these factors.

Accepted Answer

A good answer will include the following

Question 2

________ is a form of cognitive behavioural therapy designed to challenge the client's unrealistic or irrational thoughts.

Accepted Answer

A)  Flooding 
B)  Exposure therapy 
C)  Rational-emotive behavioural therapy 
D)  Systematic desensitization 
A)  Flooding 
B)  Exposure therapy 
C)  Rational-emotive behavioural therapy 
D)  Systematic desensitization

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT accurate in regard to the treatment of mood disorders?

Accepted Answer

A)  In the treatment of depression, cognitive therapy is often more effective than antidepressant drugs alone. 
B)  The lessons learned in cognitive therapy last a long time after treatment. 
C)  People receiving cognitive therapy as treatment for depression are less likely than those on antidepressant drugs to relapse when treatment is over. 
D)  Depressed individuals who have received antidepressant drugs but no psychotherapy report continued success according to follow-ups done from 15 months to many years after treatment. 
A)  In the treatment of depression, cognitive therapy is often more effective than antidepressant drugs alone. 
B)  The lessons learned in cognitive therapy last a long time after treatment. 
C)  People receiving cognitive therapy as treatment for depression are less likely than those on antidepressant drugs to relapse when treatment is over. 
D)  Depressed individuals who have received antidepressant drugs but no psychotherapy report continued success according to follow-ups done from 15 months to many years after treatment.

Question 4

Transcranial magnetic stimulation involves the use of a pulsing magnetic coil held to the depressed person's skull at the left prefrontal cortex.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What is the most effective method of therapy for depression?

Accepted Answer

A good answer will include the following

Question 6

Why do humanist therapists concentrate on the "here and now" instead of on the "why and how"?

Accepted Answer

A good answer will include the following

Question 7

Thousands of books and programs are designed to help people help themselves. One of the benefits of these books and programs can be:

Accepted Answer

A)  providing inexpensive psychotherapy for specific problems. 
B)  spiritual guidance in a group regulated by professional standards. 
C)  group therapy within the self-help group to help those with serious difficulties. 
D)  reassurance and support in ways that family and friends may not be able to provide. 
A)  providing inexpensive psychotherapy for specific problems. 
B)  spiritual guidance in a group regulated by professional standards. 
C)  group therapy within the self-help group to help those with serious difficulties. 
D)  reassurance and support in ways that family and friends may not be able to provide.

Question 8

Behavioural therapists would agree that ________ may be useful in treating a psychological disorder.

Accepted Answer

A)  early memories 
B)  flooding 
C)  free association 
D)  transference 
A)  early memories 
B)  flooding 
C)  free association 
D)  transference

Question 9

Which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia would not be relieved by antipsychotic drugs?

Accepted Answer

A)  delusions 
B)  agitation 
C)  the duration of schizophrenic episodes 
D)  emotional flatness 
A)  delusions 
B)  agitation 
C)  the duration of schizophrenic episodes 
D)  emotional flatness

Question 10

Psychosurgery is defined as information given to a patient about a surgical procedure before the surgery in order to prevent anxiety and other psychological problems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

________ is/are successful in reducing chronic anger, abusiveness, and hostility.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cognitive therapy 
B)  Systematic desensitization 
C)  Exposure techniques 
D)  Family intervention therapies 
A)  Cognitive therapy 
B)  Systematic desensitization 
C)  Exposure techniques 
D)  Family intervention therapies

Question 12

What is the most important factor contributing to success in therapy?

Accepted Answer

A)  the therapeutic alliance 
B)  an ethnic match between therapist and client 
C)  a motivated client 
D)  a match between type of therapy and type of problem 
A)  the therapeutic alliance 
B)  an ethnic match between therapist and client 
C)  a motivated client 
D)  a match between type of therapy and type of problem

Question 13

Describe the role of the therapeutic alliance in successful therapy.

Accepted Answer

A good answer will include the following

Question 14

Which of the following symptoms is NOT reduced by antipsychotic drugs?

Accepted Answer

A)  hallucinations 
B)  disordered thoughts 
C)  delusions 
D)  agitation 
A)  hallucinations 
B)  disordered thoughts 
C)  delusions 
D)  agitation

Question 15

Cognitive therapy is to behaviour therapy as:

Accepted Answer

A)  thoughts are to actions. 
B)  moods are to feelings. 
C)  outside is to inside. 
D)  leader is to follower. 
A)  thoughts are to actions. 
B)  moods are to feelings. 
C)  outside is to inside. 
D)  leader is to follower.

Question 16

Aaron Beck's form of cognitive therapy avoids direct challenges to the client's beliefs.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

A girl has an unreasonable fear of heights. If a therapist were to use the technique of flooding, the girl would be:

Accepted Answer

A)  required to talk about what she fears most about high places. 
B)  made to watch a video of rock climbers. 
C)  brought to the top of a mountain. 
D)  asked to imagine herself hang-gliding. 
A)  required to talk about what she fears most about high places. 
B)  made to watch a video of rock climbers. 
C)  brought to the top of a mountain. 
D)  asked to imagine herself hang-gliding.

Question 18

Match the method of therapy with the appropriate person.
-existential therapy

Accepted Answer

A) Salvador Minuchin 
B) Albert Ellis 
C) Carl Rogers 
D) Aaron Beck 
E) Irvin Yalom 
A) Salvador Minuchin 
B) Albert Ellis 
C) Carl Rogers 
D) Aaron Beck 
E) Irvin Yalom

Question 19

Freud believed that with insight and emotional release, his patient's symptoms would disappear.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Match the primary goal with the appropriate type of therapy.
-The primary goal of therapy is insight into unconscious motives and feelings.

Accepted Answer

A) couples therapy 
B) behavioural therapy 
C) existential therapy 
D) humanist therapy 
E) psychodynamic therapy 
A) couples therapy 
B) behavioural therapy 
C) existential therapy 
D) humanist therapy 
E) psychodynamic therapy

Your textbook authors outline four factors that can lead to increased harm to clients during psychotherapy. Describe these factors.

________ is a form of cognitive behavioural therapy designed to challenge the client's unrealistic or irrational thoughts.

Which of the following is NOT accurate in regard to the treatment of mood disorders?

Transcranial magnetic stimulation involves the use of a pulsing magnetic coil held to the depressed person's skull at the left prefrontal cortex.

What is the most effective method of therapy for depression?

Why do humanist therapists concentrate on the "here and now" instead of on the "why and how"?

Thousands of books and programs are designed to help people help themselves. One of the benefits of these books and programs can be:

Behavioural therapists would agree that ________ may be useful in treating a psychological disorder.

Which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia would not be relieved by antipsychotic drugs?

Psychosurgery is defined as information given to a patient about a surgical procedure before the surgery in order to prevent anxiety and other psychological problems.

________ is/are successful in reducing chronic anger, abusiveness, and hostility.

What is the most important factor contributing to success in therapy?

Describe the role of the therapeutic alliance in successful therapy.

Which of the following symptoms is NOT reduced by antipsychotic drugs?

Cognitive therapy is to behaviour therapy as:

Aaron Beck's form of cognitive therapy avoids direct challenges to the client's beliefs.

A girl has an unreasonable fear of heights. If a therapist were to use the technique of flooding, the girl would be:

Match the method of therapy with the appropriate person. -existential therapy

Freud believed that with insight and emotional release, his patient's symptoms would disappear.

Match the primary goal with the appropriate type of therapy. -The primary goal of therapy is insight into unconscious motives and feelings.

What Is Psychology

How Psychologists Do Research

Genes, Evolution, and Environment

The Brain: Source of Mind and Self

Body Rhythms and Mental States

Sensation and Perception

Learning and Conditioning

Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

Thinking and Intelligence

Memory

Emotion, Stress, and Health

Motivation

Development Over the Life Span

Theories of Personality

Psychological Disorders

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Exam 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

Your textbook authors outline four factors that can lead to increased harm to clients during psychotherapy. Describe these factors.

________ is a form of cognitive behavioural therapy designed to challenge the client's unrealistic or irrational thoughts.

Which of the following is NOT accurate in regard to the treatment of mood disorders?

Transcranial magnetic stimulation involves the use of a pulsing magnetic coil held to the depressed person's skull at the left prefrontal cortex.

What is the most effective method of therapy for depression?

Why do humanist therapists concentrate on the "here and now" instead of on the "why and how"?

Thousands of books and programs are designed to help people help themselves. One of the benefits of these books and programs can be:

Behavioural therapists would agree that ________ may be useful in treating a psychological disorder.

Which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia would not be relieved by antipsychotic drugs?

Psychosurgery is defined as information given to a patient about a surgical procedure before the surgery in order to prevent anxiety and other psychological problems.

________ is/are successful in reducing chronic anger, abusiveness, and hostility.

What is the most important factor contributing to success in therapy?

Describe the role of the therapeutic alliance in successful therapy.

Which of the following symptoms is NOT reduced by antipsychotic drugs?

Cognitive therapy is to behaviour therapy as:

Aaron Beck's form of cognitive therapy avoids direct challenges to the client's beliefs.

A girl has an unreasonable fear of heights. If a therapist were to use the technique of flooding, the girl would be:

Match the method of therapy with the appropriate person. -existential therapy

Freud believed that with insight and emotional release, his patient's symptoms would disappear.

Match the primary goal with the appropriate type of therapy. -The primary goal of therapy is insight into unconscious motives and feelings.

What Is Psychology

How Psychologists Do Research

Genes, Evolution, and Environment

The Brain: Source of Mind and Self

Body Rhythms and Mental States

Sensation and Perception

Learning and Conditioning

Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

Thinking and Intelligence

Memory

Emotion, Stress, and Health

Motivation

Development Over the Life Span

Theories of Personality

Psychological Disorders

Filters