Exam 5: Emotionalbehavioral Problems and Counseling

Rational therapy asserts that emotions are primarily determined by people's experiences.

When a counselor believes that a client has touched on an important area of concern, he or she can encourage further communication by any of the following ways except:

In the past 50 years, one of the major developments in the treatment of the severely disturbed was the discovery and use of psychoactive drugs. The other was:

While exploring alternative solutions to a counselee's problems, in which of the following circumstances should the counselee's right to self-determination be taken away?

​_____ means that a patient accepts treatment after receiving a full and understandable explanation of the treatment being offered and making a decision based on his or her own judgment of the risks and benefits of the treatment.

The major developments in the treatment of the severely disturbed include all of the following, except:

Requirements for membership in the Register of Clinical Social Workers, established by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), include all of the following except:

Rational therapy asserts that people often cannot control events that happen to them, but they have the power to think rationally and thereby change all of their unwanted emotions and ineffective actions by self-talk.

Briefly summarize the guidelines to guide counselors for building a relationship with a client during counselling.

The _____ Act, passed in 1963, provided for transferring the care and treatment of the majority of mentally ill people from state hospitals to their home communities.

Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) serve the purpose of containing costs in the plans of managed mental health care, which is mainly done by restricting client benefits. An example of such restrictions is:

Which of the following is a destructive way to deal with an unwanted emotion?

Albert Ellis asserts that one can gain an understanding of what would have prevented offenders from committing unusual offenses, if:

There are three mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive phases to the counseling process: building a relationship between counselor and counselee, exploring counselee's problems in depth, and exploring alternative solutions for those problems.

​Which approach (the medical approach or the interactional approach) do you believe is more accurate in identifying why someone has an emotional or behavioral problem? Why?

According to the American Psychiatric Association, which of the following is classified as a paraphilic disorder?

​Albert Ellis asserts that the primary determinant of all of our actions is our thoughts.

_____ is a psychotic condition characterized by disturbances of language and communication, thought, perception, affect, and behavior and lasting longer than six months.

Thomas Szasz categorizes all of the so-called mental illnesses into three categories of emotional/behavioral disorders. Which of the following used to be in the category of antisocial acts but was removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses in 1974?

A person suffering from anorexia nervosa (AN) experiences weight loss through dietary restraint, abstention from food, or excessive exercise.