Exam 16: Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

Health Canada requires short-term controlled trials to test the effects of drugs used in the treatment of psychological disorders. But even if a drug is effective in the short run, what long-term risks need to be considered?

A person may have short-term success with antipsychotic or antidepressant drugs, but because of their unpleasant side effects, ________ of the people stop taking them.

Cognitive-behaviour therapy with depressed patients restores their brain-wave sleep profiles to normal.

Who of the following developed rational-emotive behaviour therapy?

Today's psychodynamic therapists are more goal-directed than were orthodox psychoanalysts of the past.

A patient lies comfortably relaxed on a couch while verbally reporting on all of his thoughts, feelings, sensations, and other mental events. The patient is engaged in what Freud calls:

Which of the following is not a behavioural therapy?

Antipsychotic drugs offer schizophrenics relief by eliminating jumbled thoughts, difficulty concentrating, and the inability to interact with others.

Match the primary goal with the appropriate type of therapy. -The primary goals of therapy are resolution of conflicts and breaking out of destructive habits.

Critics of electroconvulsive therapy believe that it is inhumane because ECT is ineffective unless the patient is conscious.

Give examples of phobias that are common to many individuals and give examples that show how an idiosyncratic phobia may be acquired through classical conditioning. Which type of phobia did three-year-old Peter have before Mary Cover Jones was able to eliminate it? Describe her counterconditioning technique and then explain how a variation of this procedure, systematic desensitization, is used for treating phobias in adults.

A therapist views a patient's symptom as the result of repression and so he focuses on understanding rather than cure. Which type of therapy would this represent?

In what ways can a family be compared to a kaleidoscope?

"You look just like my ex-husband used to look before he would pick a fight. I hate that look!" This patient's utterance directed at her therapist during psychoanalysis is referred to as:

________, such as Valium and Xanax, increase the activity of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).

The primary goal of ________ is to find meaning in life.

Another name for exposure treatment is:

In the Japanese practice of Morita therapy, clients are taught to:

One of the anxiety disorders discussed in Chapter 16 is obsessive-compulsive disorder. Define obsessions and compulsions. What brain abnormality may be associated with OCD? Since OCD appears to have a biological abnormality, is a biological treatment most appropriate? Support your answer with information from the PET scan studies of people taking Prozac or receiving cognitive-behaviour therapy with no medication.

Biological therapy with depressed patients restores their brain-wave sleep profiles to normal.