Exam 17: Psychological and Biological Treatments

Your patient is presenting with the classic signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. Which of the following is an atypical antipsychotic that you will prescribe?

What is one reason that many critics argue that psychologists should not be given the right to directly prescribe medications to their psychotherapy clients?

Which family therapy approach is designed to remove barriers to effective communication?

A frequently prescribed medication for managing one's attention problems is ________.

According to your book, systematic desensitisation may fare no better than a placebo procedure designed to arouse an equivalent degree of ________ expectations.

One reason that nearly any type of credible treatment may produce strong beneficial effects is that people hope it will and want it to work. This idea is referred to as ________.

According to the authors, behavioural therapists have been diligent in making only those claims that fit with the data about the effectiveness of their therapeutic techniques. A critical thinker would recognise this as what is required by the critical-thinking principle of ________.

An ineffective therapy may appear to be helpful, even when it really is not, because the client believes that it will be effective. This is what psychologists refer to as the ________.

According to this neo-Freudian, the goal of psychotherapy was individuation.

A ________ provides counselling, support in spiritual context, wellness programmes, as well as group, family, and couples therapy.

Kevin is taking a monoamine oxidase (MAO)inhibitor for his depression. He has most likely been prescribed with which of the following medications?

Why is the choice of a therapist who uses effective methods an important one as a person enters into psychotherapy?

Alcoholics Anonymous is the largest organisation for treating alcoholics and was founded in

Statisticians will often describe how extreme performances, both good and bad, tend to be followed by more average levels of performance. This ________ might be one explanation for why many psychotherapy patients improve regardless of the type of therapy received.

Many people are surprised to learn that inpatients with major depression still receive ________ therapy.

There is very little research examining the effectiveness of 12-step programmes that are patterned after the Alcoholics Anonymous model, and thus what research does exist is difficult to verify. For which critical-thinking concept is this a big problem?

The most recent trend in group therapy has been for groups to

Pretend you are a psychiatrist, and you have two patients-John presents with schizophrenia, and Bill with depression. Please outline what medications you would prescribe and discuss the possible side effects. You may want to give consideration to the treatment that produces low side effects, although you can prescribe from any of the drug classes.

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)has been marketed widely as a breakthrough treatment for ________.

The ________ model of treatment for alcoholism assumes that people who are on the road to recovery will occasionally "slip". This treatment attempts to teach people not to feel ashamed, guilty, or discouraged when these slips occur.