Exam 14: Psychological Therapies

For psychotherapy to be effective:

Family counselling is a form of ______ therapy.

Hiram has learned to seek attention by engaging in inappropriate behaviours by watching his brother receive attention for hitting and biting and then imitating his behaviour.Hiram has learned to seek attention by engaging in inappropriate behaviours by using which of the following techniques?

Every time Jarrad opens his cigarette case or uses his lighter,he gets a painful electric shock.Jarrad's friends and family have been asked not to give him any cigarettes or light any cigarettes for him,so he must use his own lighter if he wants to smoke.Eventually,Jarrad loses his desire to smoke,thanks to:

All parents think their children are geniuses.However,to be classified as a genius,the IQ score must be above:

Which of the following is a limitation of humanistic therapy?

The reality television shows that deliberately force people to face their "worst fears" are most similar to which therapy technique?

According to Carl Rogers,the __________is how people think they should be.

Estella is afraid of cats.To help her overcome her fear,her mother calmly pets and strokes a cat while Estella is watching.Her mother encourages her to imitate her behaviour.Estella's mother is using:

The risk of permanent brain damage is greatest with:

The most important aspect of successful psychotherapy is the __________ between client and therapist.

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?

The psychoanalyst knows that repressed information is just "below the surface" of the conversation when the patient begins to experience:

______ are specifically trained to use biomedical therapies.

Which of the following is a key component of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis?

Researchers have found that about ______ percent of people feel that psychotherapy has helped them.

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

Language can be a barrier to effective psychotherapy,particularly when the cultural backgrounds of the client and therapist are different.

Psychoanalysis was a therapy technique designed by:

Rational-emotive therapy is a type of ______ therapy.