Exam 17: Treatment of Mental Disorders

Janet has been depressed for two months and is finally seeking help from a psychiatrist. Which of the following medications would probably not help with her depression?

Cognitive therapy was originally developed by __________ as a treatment for __________.

Systematic desensitization is __________.

Antipsychotic drugs are not the perfect treatment for schizophrenia. For example, __________.

A client is asked to perform a phony breathing exercise and is then exposed to a supposedly stressful situation. The client is not stressed and believes the breathing exercise to be responsible for this benefit. This client has demonstrated the __________ effect.

One advantage of electroconvulsive treatment that makes it the treatment of choice in some cases is that it __________.

Dr. Ahman, a behavior therapist, has a client who cannot seem to stick with his exercise program. Which behavior therapy technique would Dr. Ahman most likely use to get his client to increase his exercising?

In choosing a form of therapy, the best strategy is to focus on what works. In fact, as current practice reveals, __________.

Glenn is very much captivated by the description of a newer, atypical antipsychotic because it is claimed that, unlike the older classic antipsychotics, the atypical antipsychotics __________.

Katie is being instructed in how to identify her automatic thoughts and to dispute her illogical and self-destructive thinking patterns. What form of therapy is she likely involved in?

__________ helps most clients in psychotherapy realize that they really can conquer their problems. Moreover, according to some researchers, it may be the single most important ingredient in successful psychotherapy.

The various forms of psychotherapy share many common factors, meaning that there are several mechanisms that are at work regardless of the theoretical form of psychotherapy. However, presumed differences concerning the goal of therapy exist. In psychoanalysis, the primary mechanism through which treatment works is believed to be one of the following:

Dr. Katz is a psychologist who is taking part in a large-scale research study to examine the efficacy of one form of psychotherapy over another. With 24 other psychologists involved in providing treatment it is important that potentially confounding variables be controlled for. Which of the following approaches provides the best experimental control?

After learning that Catherine is being treated with lithium carbonate, we can safely assume that she has experienced __________.

Freud believed that he could exploit certain tendencies in his patients as a way of gaining insight into their unconscious. In which of the following ways could his relationship with his patients serve the function of revealing information about them without the patient consciously volunteering this information?

Now that Stacy is beginning to undergo classical Freudian psychoanalysis, her analyst, in keeping with psychoanalytic principles, has asked her not to __________.

Steve's daughter is about to receive treatment after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Steve wants to make sure he understands how effective antipsychotic medications are. Which of the following most accurately summarizes research about the efficacy of antipsychotic medications?

Gina has been experiencing transference during her psychoanalysis with Dr. Gavin. This means that she __________.

ECT (or electroconvulsive shock therapy was originally meant to treat schizophrenia but was soon established as apparently effective in the treatment of __________.

Glenn has been taking a classical antipsychotic for schizophrenia. Because he wants to understand what effects the drug is having on him, he reads about how it is working in his brain. He finds that the antipsychotic medications are doing which of the following in his brain?