Exam 15: Psychological Therapies

The kind of therapy that involves talking things out with a professional is called ________.

________ is a form of therapy in which clients are directed to move their eyes rapidly back and forth while engaged in brief and repeated imaginal flooding.

Julian seeks professional help for his fear of spiders. In stages, his therapist shows him pictures, movies, and models of spiders, then a real dead spider, a small live spider in a jar, several live spiders in a jar, and finally a live spider loose in the room. At each stage, he made sure that Julian was fully relaxed. This technique is known as ________.

When using ________, the psychoanalyst points out connections and associations the client may not have known to exist in her personality.

The most important aspect of successful psychotherapy is the ________ between client and therapist.

Eye-movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) is used to treat posttraumatic stress disorder.

Which of the following is NOT a primary technique associated with modern biomedical therapy?

The behavior of schizophrenic or depressed individuals living in psychiatric institutions has been successfully modified through the use of ________.

Which therapy does NOT assume that many psychological problems are the result of internal thoughts and feelings?

Joe has been undergoing psychoanalysis for several months. Over the past few weeks, he has become unwilling to talk about his relationship with his father and becomes uncomfortable when thoughts of him enter his mind during therapy. What process would the therapist say is occurring?

A patient scheduled to have an operation called a bilateral anterior cingulotomy may have which of the following diagnoses?

Most family therapists who work with couples concentrate on ________.

An archaic practice of chipping holes in a patient's skull to allow demons to escape is called:

Which of the following is an advantage of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapies?

In the psychoanalytic technique of ________, the patient is encouraged to say whatever thoughts come to mind, regardless of their order or appropriateness.

Which of the following is a reason why deep brain stimulation (DBS) would not be used before techniques like repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)?

Arranging anxiety-provoking situations in a hierarchy would be characteristic of ________.

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

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

Saleem has been seeing a therapist because she cannot adjust to her new husband's children from a previous marriage. Although she dearly loves her husband, she feels awkward and embarrassed in front of the children. The therapist suggests that she bring her husband and his children with her to the next session so she can see them interact. Saleem is probably seeing a ________.