Exam 15: Psychological Therapies

Levi's therapist is using interpersonal therapy. What would be the goal of Levi's therapy sessions?

Lulu 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 Lulu is undergoing is called ________.

What do behavior therapists see as the cause of maladaptive behaviors?

An important advantage of group therapy is that:

The term "unconditional positive regard" is associated with ________.

Sigmund Freud arrives for a therapy session with Albert Ellis. Freud's main complaint is depression; it seems that Freud's writings have not received the kind of response he had hoped for and expected. What is Ellis most likely to say during the therapy session?

Collins uses exposure-based therapies to treat many of her patients. Client A is actually confronted with the situation that causes her anxiety, while Client B is asked to think about and visualize the frightening situation. Client A's treatment method would be described as ________, while client B's treatment method is ________.

Gary takes antipsychotic drugs to control the symptoms of schizophrenia. After taking the drug for some time, he begins exhibiting repetitive, involuntary jerks and movements of his face, lips, and legs. Gary is showing signs of ________.

Which of the following is a therapy based on the principles of classical conditioning?

Which technique removes a reinforcer to reduce the frequency of a behavior?

According to Sigmund Freud, the ________ of the dream refers to the actual dream and its events.

Researchers have found that about ________ percent of people feel that psychotherapy has helped them.

Martha and Stan are newlyweds. They see a therapist because Martha is afraid of sexual intercourse. The therapist asks Martha exactly which acts make her anxious, constructs a hierarchy of those threatening acts, teaches her to relax, and asks her to imagine each threatening scene in the hierarchy and use the relaxation technique to reduce her anxiety as she imagines each scene from the bottom to the top of her hierarchy. The therapist is using ________.

When problems exist between parents and children, their problems are usually BEST handled by ________.

In ________, an unpleasant event is paired with a particular response in order to make that response less likely to occur.

What type of drugs are the traditional antianxiety drugs, or minor tranquilizers, such as Valium?

Due to new computer technology that involves having the client wear a headset that can project realistic anxiety-provoking images, therapists can now conduct ________ therapies in their offices.

Which of the following individuals would be LEAST likely to benefit from psychoanalysis?

Systematic desensitization is especially useful as a treatment for ________.

An essential element of client-centered therapy is ________.