Chapter 15
Whose therapy teaches people new and more adaptive ways of thinking and acting, and is based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions?
Aaron Beck
Glenn suffers from depression. He frequently thinks of situations as overwhelmingly bad, with no hope of future improvement. Glenn would most benefit from _____ therapy.
Aaron Beck's cognitive
Mia sees her therapist every other week. When she is at her therapist's office, she feels accepted and can share everything with her therapist. While her therapist listens to what Mia has to say without judgment, he also seeks understanding by paraphrasing as well as asking for clarification. Mia's therapist is using which therapeutic approach?
client-centered therapy
psychotherapy; biomedical therapy
Therapies dealing with psychological disorders can be classified into two main categories. In the first, _____, a trained professional talks to clients to help them overcome difficulties, while _____ influences the brain directly through drugs or other treatments.
Tardive dyskinesia is associated with the long-term use of which type of drugs?
antipsychotic
The primary goal of psychodynamic therapies is to:
bring unconscious conflicts to conscious awareness to help the person gain insight into conflicts and resolve them.
Marjorie is experiencing frequent and intense conflict with her teenage daughter. To heal the dynamic in the household, Marjorie should seek out _____ therapy.
family
Mary's therapist refers to her as a client. Mary's therapist has a _____ perspective.
humanistic
The _____ perspective in therapy emphasizes people's inherent potential for self-fulfillment.
humanistic
A token economy incorporates _______________ to modify behaviors by reinforcing desired behaviors with tokens that can be exchanged for various treats.
operant conditioning procedures
This is the most drastic and least-used biomedical intervention for changing thoughts and behavior.
psychosurgery
What involves stimulation of certain regions of the brain with magnetic impulses of various frequencies?
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
Humanistic therapists aimed to boost people's self-fulfillment by helping them to grow in:
self-acceptance
a token economy
A token economy is an operant conditioning procedure aimed at eliminating unwanted behaviors.
Mental health reform came about through the efforts of Philippe Pinel and ____________.
Dorothea Dix
Which psychologist is MOST likely to agree with the idea that dreams offer valuable clues to the unconscious mind?
Dr. Dominguez, a psychoanalytic therapist
person-centered therapy
Person-centered therapy is a single approach to treatment, rather than a combination of techniques.
psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis involves dream analysis and the analysis of past experiences in childhood; it attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
a token economy
Which therapy is NOT based on classical conditioning?
Psychotherapy
____ consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
exposure
_____ therapies treat anxieties by subjecting people to the things they fear and avoid
psychodynamic therapy
_____ therapy evolved out of the classic psychoanalytic therapy.
Aaron Beck
_____ was originally trained in Freudian techniques but invented his own therapy to try to reverse clients' catastrophizing beliefs about themselves
Today, patients are no longer treated with _____________, a psychosurgical procedure in which the nerves that connect the frontal lobes with the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain are cut.
a lobotomy
eclectic therapy
an approach to treatment in which the therapist uses whichever techniques seem most useful and relevant for a given patient
evidence-based practice
clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
Several years after his wife's death, Mr. Bill remains incapacitated by feelings of guilt and sadness. To reduce Mr. Bill's depression, a therapist is actively encouraging him to stop blaming himself for his inability to prevent his wife's death. The therapist's approach is MOST representative of:
cognitive therapy
David suffers from anxiety. His therapist is training him to replace his catastrophizing thinking with more realistic appraisals, and then to gradually engage in activities that normally would be stressful for him. The therapist's approach BEST illustrates:
cognitive-behavioral therapy
Nancy's therapist encourages her to think about her strengths, rather than her weaknesses, and to develop a habit of thanking others when they complement her or provide emotional support. The therapist's approach BEST illustrates:
cognitive-behavioral therapy
Humanistic therapists focus on _____ thoughts.
conscious
By examining the actual consequences associated with anxiety-provoking situations, cognitive therapy patients usually find that the consequences are not as bad as they had imagined. This most directly helps to:
decatastriophize thinking
Cognitive therapists are MOST likely to:
emphasize the importance of clients' personal interpretations of life events.
A patient at a mental health clinic is suffering from involuntary movements of his facial muscles and tongue, which may be _____________. This is a side effect of his long-term use of antipsychotic medication
tardive dyskinesia
Potato sees a cognitive therapist for depression. Potato's therapist has explained to her that cognitive therapy is very effective for depression because it addresses:
the relationship b/w thoughts and feelings
Todd is attracted to his therapist. His attraction reflects the feelings he had toward his mother when he was a young boy in the midst of the Oedipal conflict. Todd's experience illustrates:
transference
humanistic therapy
treatment focused on increasing awareness of one's self concept
