Exam 13: Therapies

Stress-inoculation therapy involves ________.

A client lies on a couch, with the therapist sitting out of sight, behind him. The therapist gets to know the client's problems through free association, and positive and negative transference. The therapist encourages the client to "work through" the problems. This is ________ therapy.

Antipsychotic drugs tend to relieve ________ of schizophrenia.

If you wanted to produce calm in a client, reduce agitation, and induce sleep, you would be most successful by using a(n) ________.

Ritalin is a drug technically classified as a(n) ________.

Traditionally, ________ were the only mental health professionals licensed to offer biological treatments.

Neo-Freudians differ from traditional Freudian approaches to therapy in that they encourage clients to focus on the ________ and they favor ________ their patients.

Allen is suffering from sexual desire disorder. He would be most likely to solve this problem with ________ therapy.

The major goal of insight therapies is to give people ________.

Research indicates that psychotherapy is ________.

Aversive conditioning has been successfully used to treat alcoholism, obesity, and smoking.

Stress-inoculation therapy works by turning a client's ________ into a kind of vaccine against stress-induced anxiety.

In psychoanalysis, "working through" provides people with ________.

Halfway houses and other places where ex-patients can find help and support in their efforts to return to normal lives after release from institutions are forms of ________ prevention.

Free association is a procedure for bringing underlying thoughts to surface consciousness.

Describe the general goals and reasons for using biological therapies, Also, identify three types of biological therapy and briefly describe the reasons for using them, their effectiveness, and the disadvantages associated with using them.

Phenothiazines are antidepressant drugs.

According to behavior theory, the therapist should ________.

Summarize the research regarding gender differences in treatments. Also, summarize the issues involved in cultural differences in treatments.

Couple therapy for one partner of a couple is just as effective as it is for both of them.