Exam 14: Therapies

According to your textbook,______________ might be nearly as effective in treating mild or moderate depression as antidepressant drugs.

Who of the following is LEAST likely to benefit from insight therapy?

Today,people in need of serious,long-term care often live in _________________ centers,which are a humane alternative to the asylums of the past.

The social movement against keeping the mentally ill in asylums is known as _____.

________ client-centered therapy centers on the patient's goals and ways of solving problems.

Maureen is in therapy because she is very frightened of her father and feels tongue-tied around him.After a few months she begins to feel frightened of her therapist also.According to Freud,this is an example of _______.

Which of the following is believed to be the key reason why men in the United States often go without psychological treatment?

Which of the following is true about the stigma associated with psychological disorders?

Electroconvulsive therapy is used to alleviate _______.

What is the process by which a patient projects feelings about other individuals onto the psychoanalyst?

Which treatment is LEAST likely to be used today?

Electroconvulsive therapy _______.

Cognitive-behavioral therapies seem to be effective because they:

According to Sigmund Freud,when you awaken in the morning and remember a dream,you recall the dream's __________.

Antidepressant drugs typically affect which type of neurotransmitters?

Kelly has been in therapy with Dr.Williams for 2 months when she suddenly starts skipping appointments because she got angry at some of her therapist's questions.Even when in session,she tends to blankly stare at the therapist.This is best explained by ____________.

In response to the widespread use of lobotomies,psychosurgery was banned in the United States in the 1970s.

What category of therapy is most concerned with improving a client's awareness of the underlying causes of his or her difficulties?

Which area of psychology focuses on identifying how an individual's mental health is influenced by factors such as the neighborhood,economics,social groups?

Not all psychodynamic theories focus on repressed sexual and aggressive conflicts.For example,____________ is a type of psychodynamic therapy that focuses primarily on how early childhood experiences and emotional attachments influence later psychological functioning.