Exam 16: Treatment of Psychological Disorders-Part A

Adam had always been the problem child of the family,getting in trouble for skipping school and routinely disobeying his parents and their rules for him.His parents arranged a family therapy session,and Adam was surprised to hear the therapist say that:

Cognitive restructuring seeks to replace irrational beliefs about the world with _____ beliefs about the world.

Phillip's psychiatrist prescribed him Xanax.Phillip probably has:

A reason for which a person who receives a benzodiazepine prescription for anxiety would NOT get a prescription for only a short period of time is to:

A criticism of using a wait-list control group as a means from which to assess the effectiveness of a treatment is problematic because people in the control group:

Operant conditioning procedures focus on changing behavior using:

Symptoms of benzodiazepine intoxication do NOT include:

Patients in a drug rehabilitation program earn vouchers that can be exchanged for items such as movie tickets,restaurant gift cards,clothes,or bus tickets when they submit a clean urine sample.The program is using a(n):

The surgical procedures called cingulotomy and anterior capsulotomy are last-resort treatments for:

An interaction between a socially sanctioned clinician and a client,with the goal of support for the client or relief from the client's psychological problem,is called:

Dana has schizophrenia,which was diagnosed when she was a teenager;she has now been on a standard dose of antipsychotic medication for more than 20 years.She has developed peculiar mannerisms such as thrusting her tongue forward and rubbing the thumb and middle finger of her right hand together.Side effects like these are called:

Johnny found out that his friend Sam was hospitalized because of severe depression.When Johnny went to visit Sam,Sam said that he was feeling better after the procedure but that he was suffering from short-term memory loss.Sam was MOST likely treated with:

Which example is NOT a personal benefit of self-help or support groups?

Ellen was in the depths of depression when she began psychotherapy.Now,two weekly sessions later,she already feels considerably better.This improvement,however,is completely due to the fact that extreme symptoms regress toward their average levels.Ellen's improvement during therapy is a treatment illusion termed:

Compared with conventional antipsychotics,atypical antipsychotics appear to be _____ effective at treating the _____ symptoms of schizophrenia.

Researchers are attempting to assess if cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)is an effective treatment for depression.Participants with unipolar depression are assessed and then randomly assigned to either a treatment group or a control group.The treatment group receives CBT twice per week for 6 weeks.The control group receives no treatment.At the end of the 6 weeks,the depression levels of both groups are reassessed.This is an example of a(n):

As compared with medication,psychotherapy is _____ effective in treating anxiety disorders and works through _____ brain mechanisms.

The MAIN reason why the practice of lobotomy ended was:

What is the CORRECT order,from most common to least common,for reasons why people fail to seek treatment for mental disorders?

Research has shown cognitive behavioral therapy to be more effective than is medication for treating: