Exam 15: Therapies

_______ is the most common form of biological therapy.

Dale has recently been prescribed Risperdal, which is considered a(n) _________ and will control his schizophrenia by blocking the reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin.

Kia is receiving therapy at a mental health clinic at which her psychologist and psychiatrist not only are using drug therapy and various psychotherapy techniques to deal with her depression but they are also taking into consideration Kia's ethnic, cultural, and religious values within these therapies. This mental health clinic utilizes a(n):

Dr. Emil is conducting therapy with a family in which the middle daughter has become addicted to drugs. Through these therapy sessions he will try to get the other family members to see how each of them contributed to this situation and how they can work together to solve it. Dr. Emil will be using which family therapy technique?

Validation, reframing, structural change, and detriangulation are four of the most widely used ______ techniques.

Katie's therapist is helping Katie to bolster her confidence by encouraging her to use reinforcing self-statements and to believe that she can master situations in her life and produce positive outcomes. Katie's therapist is most likely a:

Which of the following levels of prevention might consist of halfway houses?

Rogers believed that each of us grows up in a world filled with ___________, that is, the sense of worth we receive from others has strings attached.

_________ resembles an open-ended dialogue in which the therapist helps individuals to identify their automatic thoughts and to challenge the accuracy of these automatic thoughts.

According to research, overall ECT was shown to be:

Latasha works for a community mental health clinic. She has gone to the local school to screen the students for early signs of various psychological problems and then provide them with psychological services to prevent these problems from developing. Latasha is engaging in:

In which of the following forms of therapy do the participants meet regularly to discuss topics of common interest without a professional therapist being present?

Gerean has begun to treat her therapist as if the therapist was her mother. Through this process known as _________, the therapist will be able to see how Gerean relates to her mother as well as other important people in her life.

Kohut, a prominent contemporary psychodynamic theorist, advocates therapy that involves helping people to identify and seek out:

_________ therapy was developed by Fritz Perls and involves the therapist challenging the clients to help them become more aware of their feelings and to face their problems.

Glenda is going to a therapist who emphasizes conscious thought; dealing with the present, not the past; and developing an understanding of one's self in order to grow to one's potential. Glenda's therapist advocates which therapeutic approach?

Since the 1960s, psychosurgery has become more precise with small lesions usually being made in the:

Moniz developed a procedure known as _________, which involved severing the connections between specific brain structures.

___________ plays an important role in Freudian psychoanalysis.

In the technique known as _____________, therapists aim to replace maladaptive behaviors with adaptive ones by ensuring that acceptable actions are reinforced and unacceptable ones are not.