Exam 13: Methods of Therapy

A Gestalt therapist corrects her client when he says, "She makes me mad!" The therapist explains that the client must

The underlying belief that characterizes cognitive therapy is

A patient was administrated a sedative before her treatment session. The only noted side effect is she can't remember who brought her to the hospital and what happened during the session. She wakes up no longer feeling depressed. Most likely, the treatment involved

Couple therapy, family therapy, and self-help groups are all examples of group therapies.

The technique employed to determine the success of therapy that combines and averages the results of many individual studies is called ________ analysis.

Behavior therapists help clients to become aware of the __________ in which maladaptive behavior occurs.

The first mental institutions were located within

A therapist's relationship to a client is impacted by the

According to the results of therapy using systematic desensitization, as self-efficacy increases,

A client tells Beck that he feels nobody cares about him or understands how he feels even though his wife is waiting for him and wants to take him out to lunch after his session. According to Beck, the client is exhibiting

Compare and contrast psychoanalysis and client-centered therapy.

A therapist is helping a client ascertain what rewards are maintaining the client's drinking habit so a modification plan can be devised. This is an example of _______ therapy.

Prefrontal lobotomy, a failed __________ procedure, involved severing the nerve connections between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus.

Hannah's therapist believes her anxiety is the result of unconscious impulses breaking through to the conscious level. Her therapist endorses the _________ perspective.

According to behavior modification, if a habit is not reinforced, it will become

Many antipsychotic medications are believed to act by

Describe three different types of biological therapies with specific examples of each type. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these therapies?

Flooding, systematic desensitization, and modeling are behavioral methods for reducing

Ethnic minority groups are less likely to seek therapy than European-Americans for all of the following reasons, except

Tom was a WWII veteran who exhibited posttraumatic stress disorder and major depression. He was hospitalized in 1951 for his problems. Most likely, Tom went to a(n)