Exam 13: Psychological Therapies

What technique is used when patients are asked to relate thoughts,feelings,or images without modifying them?

A therapist is interested in helping his client change his disordered behavior.This therapist is most likely to be a/an ____________.

How do most antipsychotic drugs seem to work?

What is a major goal of the Gestalt therapist?

A therapist is interested in helping her client get a clearer understanding of his motives and actions.This therapist is most likely to be a/an ___________.

_________ therapies have had considerable success in treating many types of disorders,including depression,stress disorders,anxiety disorders,and even some of the behavioral symptoms of schizophrenia.

What approach to therapy utilizes the principles of classical and operant conditioning?

Which method of treating phobias involves progressive relaxation and exposure to the feared object (either actual or imagined)?

Freud believed that many psychological problems were the result of:

Which of the following statements is true regarding the effectiveness of contingency contracts when used with children?

Lily sees a professional once a month to manage the medication she is taking to help alleviate the symptoms of her anxiety disorder.The type of therapy Lily is undergoing is called ______________.

The term "free association" is associated with which of the following therapeutic endeavors?

The use of objects that can be traded for food,candy,treats,or special privileges with the purpose of reinforcing behavior is called________.

In behavior therapy,distressing symptoms are seen as ________.

Eileen goes to a therapist for help in losing weight.She and her therapist develop a written agreement spelling out weekly step-by-step methods for Eileen to use in order to reach her weight goal.The plan specifies rewards for reaching weekly goals and penalties for not achieving them.Eileen's therapist is using which of the following methods?

DeMario's wife,Marta,asks him if he wants some help cutting the grass and weeding the garden.He declines the offer and feels "blue" for the rest of the day because he keeps thinking,"Marta thinks I am getting older and losing my physical abilities." What type of cognitive distortion is involved here?

Before the use of electricity,seizures were induced in psychotic patients by means of __________.

The major goal of insight therapies is to give people __________.

After many sessions of psychoanalytic therapy,Dan at some point experiences reluctance to cooperate with his therapist and tends to forget to do what his therapist had suggested to him.Dan is experiencing ________.

The person-centered therapist has to be able to acknowledge and understand what the client is feeling and experiencing.This process is referred to as ____________.