Exam 15: Extension D: Therapies

A client suddenly begins to argue and treat the therapist like she does her mother which, according to Freud, illustrates the process of resistance.

Anxiolytics are used to reduce hallucinations and delusions.

Describe whether each of the following therapies would be classified as either an insight therapy or an action therapy and whether each of the therapies would be considered directive or non-directive and EXPLAIN why they would be classified that way: psychoanalysis, client-centered therapy, existential therapy, Gestalt therapy, behavior therapy, Beck's cognitive therapy, and Ellis' rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

In a national survey, nearly nine out of ten people who have sought mental health care say their lives improved as a result of the treatment.

You are preoccupied by the negative thought that "you will fail every test you take in college." How could you use thought-stopping to reduce the occurrence of this negative thought?

Eye movement desensitization involves having clients visualize upsetting images, while watching a pencil being moved side-to-side before their eyes.

In ____________________ therapy, the psychologist is authentic and empathic, provides unconditional positive regard, and uses reflection.

Many former mental patients who were deinstitutionalized have become homeless or are repeatedly jailed for minor crimes.

Rogers stated that the good therapist should be able to see and feel what the client is experiencing, a quality he called unconditional positive regard.

What was the prefrontal lobotomy, why is it no longer used, and what technique has replaced it?