Exam 13: Therapies for Psychological Disorders

Insight therapy and behavior therapy are collectively known as

Free association is a technique used in ________ therapy.

A person who paints a foul-tasting polish on their fingernails is using ________ therapy to quit nail-biting.

A serious side effect of electroconvulsive therapy is related to

A client at a mental institution is rewarded for improved grooming habits with coupons he can exchange for special foods or weekend passes. This technique is called

Sigmund Freud arrives for a therapy session with Albert Ellis. Freud's main complaint is depression; it seems that Freud's writings have not received the kind of response he had hoped for and expected. What is Ellis most likely to say during the therapy session?

Name the three tasks of the therapeutic process.

Therapeutic approaches that are based on the belief that all normal and abnormal behavior is learned are ________ therapies.

Bob has been under a physician's care for bipolar disorder. Bob's doctor is most likely to prescribe which of the following to treat Bob's disorder?

The problem with a ________ therapist who encourages a patient to express his or her anger is that this may actually increase the patient's rage in a harmful way.

Haldol is to "major tranquilizers" as ________ is to "minor tranquilizers."

Contrast the psychoanalytic approach to psychotherapy with the behavioral approach. Include discussion of their views on the nature of psychopathology and the role of the unconscious.

________ is credited with developing rational-emotive behavioral therapy.

Hans Eysenck believed that the odds of a person being helped by psychotherapy was

Insight therapies are effective for the treatment of

Drugs such as Haldol are effective in treating the ________ associated with schizophrenia.

The technique of ________ involves severing the nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobes with deep brain structures including the thalamus and the hypothalamus.

What do behavior therapists see as the cause of abnormal or undesirable behaviors?

A company that awards points to its salespeople for making a sale and then allows those points to be exchanged for vacation packages is using ________ to modify sales behavior.

Client-centered therapy is a type of ________ therapy.