Exam 13: Therapies

The fatality rate for ECT is ________ the fatality rate for people taking antidepressant drugs.

Each of the following is a type of cognitive therapy except ________.

Until the end of the 1980s, there were only two main types of antidepressant drugs: ________.

Many disorders that afflict people from other cultures do not exist in Western culture at all.

For the severely mentally ill, the treatment of choice for the last 150 years has been ________.

Most present-day insight-oriented therapists are more ________ and emotionally ________ their clients than traditional orthodox psychoanalysts thought fit.

A benefit of unilateral ECT versus traditional ECT is that it appears to reduce side effects.

Describe the goals, techniques, roles of the therapist, and effectiveness of therapy in at least three types of cognitive therapy.

Therapy that depends on identifying and changing inappropriately negative and self- critical patterns of thought is ________ therapy.

Describe the advantages and goals of group therapy. Also, identify three types of group therapy and briefly describe their methods, goals, and effectiveness.

Research on the outcome of couple therapy indicates that it ________.

Token economies and behavioral contracting are techniques used by ________ therapists.

A major antipsychotic tranquilizer is ________.

Many drugs that combat depression work by ________.

Stress-inoculation therapy is a form of cognitive therapy.

Each of the following is a type of group therapy except ________.

Ultimately, the best solution to providing psychotherapy to a multicultural population is to ________.

Making someone who is afraid of snakes handle dozens of snakes in an effort to get the person to overcome the fear is called ________.

Antidepressant drugs have also been shown to be effective in treating each of the following disorders except ________.

Token economies are usually employed in institutions like schools and hospitals.