Ch. 13
____ therapists focus on beliefs and attitudes that create and compound their clients' psychological problems.
Cognitive
Cognitive therapy provides____that reduce the risk of recurrence of depression when treatment ends.
Coping Skills
To change a client's nail biting behavior, the client is instructed to paint their nails with a coating that tastes terrible. This is a(n) ____ method.
aversive conditioning
It is easiest to measure the outcomes of ____ goals in therapy.
behavioral
Most antianxiety drugs belong to the chemical class known as
benzodiazepines.
Selective perception and a tendency to overgeneralize are ____as defined by Aaron Beck.
cognitive errors or distortions
Client-centered therapy focuses on how childhood experiences create ____ which adversely affect the client's current functioning.
denial of self
Psychodynamic therapies assume that psychological disorders originate in
early childhood experiences and inner conflicts.
A goal of psychoanalysis was to strengthen the psychic structure that Freud called the
ego.
In client-centered therapy, the therapist tries to set aside his or her own values and experiences and view the world through the client's
frame of reference.
A therapist's relationship to a client is impacted by the
interaction of the therapists theoretical approach and the client's perspective.
Behavior therapy applies the principles of ____ to modify behavior.
learning
Gestalt therapy differs from client-centered therapy in that Gestalt approaches are
more directive.
One advantage to group therapy is that it is
more economical.
Token economy is a behavioral treatment approach based on ____ conditioning principles.
operant
The function of early asylums was to
provide a place to store the mentally ill.
Prefrontal lobotomy, a failed ____ procedure, involved severing the nerve connections between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus.
psychosurgical
One of the most successful techniques for overcoming phobias is
systematic desensitization.