Exam 17: Psychological and Biological Treatments

Maureen is a vocalist who seems to have two conflicting parts to her personality. There is the "performer" side that thrives on the attention she receives and the "frightened" side that experiences great distress before and during a performance because she might mess up. A(n)________ therapist would focus on merging these two incompletes into a new complete personality.

The most radical and controversial of all of the biomedical treatments for psychological disorders is ________.

________ therapy is often a preferred approach to psychotherapy over individual therapy because it is more efficient and less costly.

George begins to project his anxieties and unresolved feelings about his mother onto his therapist. This is what Sigmund Freud would have called ________.

________ are persons who lack formal professional training but provide mental health services.

Carl Rogers asserts that an effective psychotherapist will

In ________, the client engages in role-playing with a therapist to learn and practise new skills.

Research suggests that there is ________ between one's race and the outcome of therapy.

A major criticism of the use of medication for treating a child's ADHD is that

Kennedy meets with a therapist who is trying to merge her "quiet expert" with her "risk taker" so that she'll become a complete "risky expert". This would be an example of ________.

Which of the six principles of critical thinking noted throughout your textbook is most congruent with the general purpose of Ellis's rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)?

Discuss how the critical thinker would use what he or she knows to help distinguish between effective and ineffective therapies so as not to be fooled into using an ineffective therapy.

An important consideration before undergoing psychosurgery is that

Dedric is being asked to anticipate an upcoming tennis match against a highly ranked opponent. He is to imagine falling behind by one set, in a best of two- of three-sets match, and what he would say to himself in such a scenario. This example illustrates what Meichenbaum would call

Unlike Freud, the neo-Freudians focused more on the ________ aspects of a patient's functioning.

Ronnie, a mentally challenged 45-year-old male, lives in a group home. He receives play money for cleaning his bedroom and other chores that he can later "spend" on group activities around the city, new clothes, or candy. Ronnie's behaviour is being directed by a(n)________ economy.

Behavioural ________ is an aspect of several different kinds of therapy that gets clients, such as those who are depressed, to participate in reinforcing activities.

In 1954, this drug ushered in the pharmacological revolution in the treatment of serious psychological disorders.

Therapists have successfully used flooding with numerous anxiety disorders, including

The most nondirective form of psychotherapy is ________.