Exam 13: Therapies

Brain surgery performed to change a person's behavior and emotional state is known as ________.

Modeling has been used successfully for each of the following except to ________.

A Consumer Reports survey of over 180,000 subscribers found each of the following except ________.

Sharon has been seeing a therapist because she cannot adjust to her new husband's children from a previous marriage. Although she dearly loves her husband, she feels awkward and embarrassed in front of the children. The therapist suggests that she bring her husband and his children with her to the next session so the therapist can see them interact. Sharon is probably seeing a ________.

Bringing hidden feelings to consciousness is the goal of ________ therapy.

A disturbance of motor control, particularly of the facial muscles that results from the use of antipsychotic drugs is ________.

The delivery of health care over the Internet or other electronic means is known as ________.

The therapist most widely known for the development of rational-emotive therapy is ________.

Bob has been under a physician's care for bipolar disorder. Bob's doctor is most likely to prescribe which of the following to treat Bob's disorder?

Drugs were not widely used to treat psychological disorders until the ________.

A technique that aims to eliminate a fear through full-intensity exposure to a feared stimulus for a prolonged period of time is ________.

Behavior contracting is a(n) ________ therapy technique.

The best description of the current status of deinstitutionalization is that ________.

Jean seeks psychological help for her intense feelings of worthlessness. Her therapist confronts and challenges her feelings, arguing that it is a self-defeating way to think and is based on erroneous information about herself. Her therapist is probably a ________.

Which of the following classes of antidepressant drugs has the fewest side effects?

Allen is troubled by some aspects of his personality and would like to explore his entire personal development in an effort to gain deeper self-understanding. He would be best served by ________ therapy.

Making acceptance and love of a person contingent upon that person conforming to what you want them to be is known as ________.

The main objective of ________ prevention is to help persons adjust to life after release from a mental hospital.

Steve is 21 years old and has never gone on a date. His parents are concerned and take him to see a therapist. The therapist sits Steve on a couch and tells him to lie down and relax. The therapist sits behind Steve and asks him to say whatever comes into his head. Steve eventually talks about his fear of women, which leads him to think about his early experiences with women: his mother, her friends, his teachers, and so on. Steve's therapist is using ________.

The most widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs are known as ________.