Exam 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words

A treatment that has been repeatedly shown to be at least as effective and safer than ECT is TMS.

Edward starts to worry about telling his therapist about his drinking. He is afraid that the therapist will get mad at him like his mother used to. Edward has started relating to his therapist as he related to his mother. Edward is experiencing ________.

What are two of the major classes of antidepressant drugs?

Part of systematic desensitization is progressive muscle relaxation.

Which approach assumes that disorders come from illogical, irrational cognitions and that changing the thinking patterns to more rational, logical ones will relieve the symptoms of the disorder?

According to psychodynamic theory, whose interpretations of the patient's words and behaviors are considered to be more valid?

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

According to client-centered therapy, a mismatch between a person's ideal self and his or her surreal self is known as incongruence.

Free association is a technique used in ______ therapy.

Therapy that depends on identifying and changing distorted thinking and unrealistic beliefs is ______ therapy.

Behavior therapy utilizes some techniques that are based on classical conditioning. What are some of the techniques?

________ is credited with developing client-centered therapy.

Suppose Suzanne is in a treatment program that focuses on issues that arise in the client's current relationships and attempts to link what happens in those relationships to mood. What type of therapy is Suzanne most likely experiencing?

What is the difference between REBT and Beck's view of cognitive therapy?

Psychoanalysis was a therapy technique designed by ______.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of group therapy?

Which of the following is an aspect of cognitive therapy that is different from REBT?

A client lies on a couch with the therapist sitting out of sight behind her. The therapist gets to know the client's problems through free association and positive and negative transference. This is an example of ______ therapy.

Cassie is diagnosed with severe depression. Her psychiatrist has prescribed many medications and psychotherapy, none of which have seemed to alleviate her depression. Her psychiatrist is now recommending _________.

Rosa, a Puerto Rican woman, shows strong emotions, trembling, numbness, and a very agitated state. If she sees a therapist who has a strong understanding of her culture, what condition does this therapist ascribe to Rosa?