Exam 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Phoua has been severely depressed for the last year and has been hospitalized for the past three months because she is suicidal.Many of the "first-line" or typical treatments for depression have not been effective for Phoua,including cognitive therapy and drug therapy.The treatment most likely to be recommended in this case is:

Arianna has anxiety symptoms and has been prescribed an anti-anxiety medication.She will probably be prescribed ________,will experience an increase in ________ neurotransmitter activity,and may experience________.

________ was originally developed to treat the medical condition ________,but was found to be effective in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression,as well.

Giving depressed patients a placebo rather than an actual drug:

Who is usually given credit for introducing psychosurgical treatments for mental disorders in the modern era?

Based on what you know about gender and depression,what should therapists pay attention to when working with people who are depressed?

The fact that more antidepressants have been prescribed to adolescents in recent decades while the adolescent suicide rate has gone down suggests that:

Malik,a child in intensive applied behavior analysis treatment for autism spectrum disorder,has improved in a number of ways after four years of treatment.However,the major difficulty for his parents is the:

When a tranquilizer is used to treat a phobia:

For which of the following patients would lithium alone have the most clear and beneficial effect?

In summarizing what is known about the treatment of autism spectrum disorder,you should conclude that although not free of problems,________ have shown the most promise.

Anxiety hierarchies are used in:

Research has indicated that some adolescents who take antidepressants experience an increase in suicidal thinking.How widespread is this problem among adolescents taking antidepressant medication?

According to your textbook,the prognosis for an autistic child is:

If Clive were a doctor in 1968 and the patients he treated were suffering from schizophrenia,he would probably have given them ________.If Clive were a doctor in 2008,he would probably have given these same patients ________.

The use of ________ declined starting in the 1950s with the development of ________ for serious mental disorders.

A counterintuitive aspect of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is that:

Don has a cleanliness obsession that revolves around a fear of dirt and germs.His compulsion involves hand washing.If he believes he has touched something unclean,he will wash his hands until they are raw.In treatment for his disorder,Don is asked to touch all the doorknobs in his therapist's office building and then is told that he cannot wash his hands.He and the therapist then sit together while Don tries to relax and overcome his feelings of extreme discomfort.This treatment:

MAO-inhibitors for the treatment of depression:

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is similar to electroconvulsive therapy in two ways.It ________ ,and it is helpful for people who ________.