Exam 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

The common ingredient to both systematic desensitization and flooding is:

Existential psychologist Irvin Yalom wrote that, "The crucial first step in therapy is the patient's assumption of responsibility for his or her life predicament." Analyze this statement within the context of existential therapy.

Since a central goal of the psychodynamic therapy is to help the patient understand the relationships between present symptoms and unconscious origins, psychodynamic therapy is often called:

In client-centred therapy, the therapist provides empathy and unconditional positive regard to the client.

Which of the following is NOT a limitation of drug therapy?

A primary goal of ________ is to resolve conflict and break out of destructive habits.

Which symptoms of schizophrenia are reduced by antipsychotic medications? Which symptoms are not relieved by these medications?

________ occurs when a client responds to her therapist with unconscious emotions or reactions, such as conflicts about her parents.

When Salvatore hears of the catastrophic earthquake near his parents' home in El Salvador, he begins to scream and becomes extremely agitated. A clinician familiar with Latino culture would:

________ are highly successful in helping people to cope with pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, headaches, or irritable bowel syndrome.

A boy is afraid of spiders. His therapist asks him to develop a list of the situations in which spiders create anxiety for him, from the least to the most threatening. Next, he is taught how to relax and let go of tension. Finally, while relaxed, he is asked to imagine the least threatening situation on the list. The procedure used by the boy's therapist is called:

Systematic desensitization for the treatment of phobias is a type of:

Describe some of the challenges associated with finding the appropriate therapeutic window that would be best for an individual patient.

Systematic desensitization is based on:

Sigmund Freud would agree that ________ may be useful in treating a psychological disorder.

Explain what is meant by the "justification of effort" effect in regard to psychotherapy. How do randomized controlled trials help guard against this problem?

All of the following statements about tranquilizers are accurate EXCEPT:

A salt called lithium carbonate often helps people who suffer from bipolar disorder.

A cognitive therapist would DISAGREE with which one of the following statements?

If a person is suffering from bipolar disorder, then an antidepressant, such as Prozac, would be an appropriate drug used in treatment.