Exam 15: Psychological Therapies

An important advantage of group therapy is that:

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

An essential element of client-centered therapy is _______.

Maureen is in therapy because she is very frightened of her father and feels tongue-tied around him.After a few months she begins to feel frightened of her therapist also.According to Freud,this is an example of _______.

Albert Bandura has used _______ techniques to reduce a wide range of phobic behaviors.

The medical model views abnormal behavior as resulting from:

Aversive conditioning:

Insight therapies include all but which one of the following?

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

Sigmund Freud believed that many psychological problems resulted from:

Systematic desensitization is especially useful as a treatment for ________.

Which of the following is TRUE of clinical psychologists who engage in private practice?

A technique which assumes it is impossible to be relaxed and anxious at the same time is _______.

The medically based therapy/therapies most commonly used today is/are:

Rational Emotive Therapy classifies as a/an _______ approach.

The method that gradually reduces a client's fears is called _______.

The time frame of which Gestalt therapy focuses is _______.

Prefrontal lobotomy is one form of __________.

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

In Gestalt therapy,the focus is on: