Exam 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

When a patient comes in complaining of a headache, the therapist views the headache as the tip of a mental iceberg. Which type of therapy would this represent?

What do rehabilitation psychologists do?

Antipsychotic drugs offer schizophrenics relief by shortening schizophrenic episodes, reducing agitation, and reducing delusions.

The benefits of drug therapy are proclaimed in magazines and in television commercials. But there are also limitations. Discuss, in detail, four of the limitations of drug therapy.

Murray is convinced that his term paper just isn't good enough, and so it would be better to take an incomplete. His therapist, Albert Ellis, suggests that he try a different approach. What might Murray end up doing, as a client of Dr. Ellis?

If Fergus takes ________, it reduces his agitation and delusions and shortens his schizophrenic episodes.

In establishing a bond with clients, therapists must distinguish normal cultural patterns from individual psychological problems.

A meta-analysis of studies addressing the effectiveness of herbs in the treatment of depression revealed that:

In client-centred therapy, the therapist's role is to:

Psychosurgery is ________ today.

________ is defined as a method originally developed by Sigmund Freud, emphasizing the exploration of unconscious motives and conflict through free association to dreams and memories.

Electroconvulsive therapy has been used successfully to treat ________ that has not responded to other treatments.

A therapist considers her method to be a form of "depth" therapy because her goal is to delve into the deep unconscious processes of her patients. Which type of therapist would she represent?

Monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors are used primarily in the treatment of schizophrenia.

________ is more effective than medication in the treatment of panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Psychotherapy is a social exchange, and, as with all relationships, its success depends on the relationship between therapist and client. Evaluate the likelihood for successful or unsuccessful therapy in regard to the following: * the qualities of the participants in therapy (therapist and client) * the therapeutic alliance * normal cultural patterns and culturally determined responses

________ therapists focus on the inner, private self that exists beneath the external masks we present to the world.

The textbook authors note that the scientist-practitioner gap has been widening in recent years. Explain the concerns of psychotherapists and of scientific psychologists. What roles have economic pressures and health costs played in this breach between the two groups?

When a patient transfers emotional elements of her or his inner life outward onto the analyst, it is a form of ________ therapy.

If a person is prescribed lithium carbonate, it is most likely that he or she has been diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder.