Exam 13: Therapies

Describe the general roles of behavior therapies. Also, identify three types of behavior therapy and describe their goals, techniques, and effectiveness.

Client-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, and psychoanalysis are examples of ________ therapies.

Suicide hot lines and crisis intervention centers are all involved in ________ prevention.

Allen is suffering from depression. He is most likely to successfully treat his depression with ________ therapy.

Research has found that most members of self-help groups express ________ their groups.

Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of institutionalization with deinstitutionalization.

The trend in psychotherapy is toward more traditional psychoanalytic methods.

A primary goal of family therapy is to ________.

A client at a mental institution is rewarded for improved grooming habits with tokens he can exchange for special foods or weekend passes. This technique is called ________.

Eileen goes to a therapist for help in losing weight. She and her therapist develop an agreement spelling out weekly step-by-step methods to reach Eileen's ultimate weight goal. The plan specifies rewards for reaching weekly goals and penalties for not achieving her weekly objectives. Eileen is undergoing ________.

Allen has a drug abuse problem. He is most likely to be successfully treated by ________.

Psychotherapies that emphasize changing clients' perceptions of their life situation as a way of modifying their behavior are called ________ therapy.

Antidepressant drugs have a number of unwanted and undesirable side effects.

A type of psychotherapy in which several clients meet regularly to help one another achieve insight into their feelings and behavior is ________ therapy.

No one knows exactly how ECT works.

A therapist who teaches clients to challenge irrational and self-defeating beliefs is probably a ________ therapist.

The patient's carrying over to the analyst feelings held toward childhood authority figures is known as ________.

Julian seeks professional help for his fear of spiders. In stages, his therapist shows him pictures, movies, and models of spiders; then a real dead spider, a small live spider in a jar, several live spiders in a jar, and finally a live spider loose in the room. At each stage, the therapist made sure that Julian was fully relaxed. This technique is known as ________.

In Native American culture, not making eye contact and looking downward during a conversation is a sign of ________.

Rogers felt that it was most important for clients to gain insight about ________.