Exam 15: C: Psychological Therapies

Cognitive behavior therapy is particularly effective in the treatment of _______.

What was a major reason for the decrease in the number of psychosurgeries performed?

Most therapists today _______.

Schizophrenia has been most effectively controlled with _______.

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

What is the process by which a patient projects feelings about other individuals onto the psychoanalyst?

Which method of treating phobias involves progressive relaxation and exposure to the feared object (either actual or imagined)?

A technique known as prefrontal lobotomy:

Within a token-economy system,the solution to the problem of having to continually reinforce the patient for each correct response is to:

A therapist is interested in interpreting dreams and in having clients relate their thoughts without modifying them.This therapist is most likely to be a:

The therapeutic approach that most stresses prevention is the _______ approach.

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

The time frame of which Gestalt therapy focuses is _______.

Virtually all antipsychotic drugs work by __________.

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

A student finds himself hating a professor because the latter reminds him of his abusive father.In psychoanalytic terms,the student is exhibiting _______.

For client-centered therapy to be effective,the client must perceive the therapist as showing _______.

Person-centered therapy has its roots in:

The first step in behavior therapy is to: