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.