final ch. 13

Question 1

psychodynamic therapies

Answer 1

attempt to uncover repressed childhood experiences that thought to explain a patient’s current difficulties

Question 2

techniques used in psychodynamic therapy

Answer 2

free association, dream analysis

Question 3

free association

Answer 3

a psychoanalytic technique used to explore the unconscious by having patient reveal whatever thoughts, feelings, or images come to mind

Question 4

dream analysis

Answer 4

Frued believed that areas of emotional concern repressed in waking life are sometimes expressed in symbolic form in dreams and patients behavior may have a symbolic quality as well

Question 5

carl rogers person-centered therapy

Answer 5

the therapist create an accepting climate and hows empathy, freeing clients to be themselves and realizing their natural tendency towards self-actualization

Question 6

gestalt therapy

Answer 6

a therapy organized by fritz pearl and that emphasized the importance of clients’ fully experiencing, in the present moment, their feelings, thoughts, and actions and taking responsibility for them

Question 7

relationship therapies

Answer 7

therapies that attempt to improve clients’ interpersonal relationships or create new relationships to support clients’ efforts to address psychological problems

Question 8

family therapy

Answer 8

therapy involving an entire family. with the goal of helping family members reach agreement on changes that will help heal the family unit, improve communication problems. and create more understanding and harmony within group

Question 9

group therapy

Answer 9

a form of therapy in with several clients (7-10) meet regularly with one or more therapist to resolve personal problems

Question 10

self-help group

Answer 10

provide may individuals with the support they need to overcome self-destructive behaviros

Question 11

token economy

Answer 11

a behavior modification technique that rewards appropriate behavior with tokens that can be exchanged later for desired goods and/or privileges

Question 12

time out

Answer 12

a behavior modification technique used to eliminate undesirable behaviors, especially in in children and adolescence, by withdrawing all reinforces for period of time

Question 13

systematic desensitization works

Answer 13

a behavior therapy that is based on classical conditioning and used to treat fears by training clients in deep muscle relaxation and then having them confront a graduate series of anxiety-producing situations (real or imagined) until they can remain relaxed while confronting even most feared situation

Question 14

flooding

Answer 14

behavior modification technique used to eliminate undesirable behavior, especially in children and adolescents, withdrawing all reinforces for a period of time

Question 15

the process of exposure and response prevention

Answer 15

a behavior therapy that exposes patients with obsessive-complusice disorder to stimuli that trigger obsessions and compulsive rituals, while patients resist performing the compulsive ritual for progressively longer prions of time

Question 16

aversion therapy

Answer 16

behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with harmful or socially undesirable behavior until the behavior becomes associated with pain/discomfort

Question 17

participants modeling

Answer 17

a behavior therapy in which appropriate response to feared stimulus is modeled in graduated steps and the client attempts to imitate the model step by step, encouraged and supported by the therapist

Question 18

Ellis’ REBT

Answer 18

rational emotive behavior therapy- designed to challenge clients’ irrational beliefs about themselves and others

Question 19

Becks cognitive therapy

Answer 19

a therapy designed by aaron beck to help clients stop their cognitive errors as hey occur and replace them with more objective thoughts

Question 20

the side effects of antipsychotic medication

Answer 20

tardive dyskinesia- almost continual twitching and jerking movements of the face and tongue, and squirming movements of the hands and trunk

Question 21

SSRI

Answer 21

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors- block the retake of the neurotransmitters serotonin increasing the availability at the synapse in the brain. few side effects/ treating many disorders

Question 22

“wonder drug” for bipolar disorder

Answer 22

lithium- a drug used to treat bipolar disorder, which at proper maintenance dosage reduces both manic and depressive episodes

Question 23

benzodiazepines

Answer 23

(xanax, valium) used to treat anxiety, prescribed more often than any other class of psychoactive drugs

Question 24

the disadvantages of drug therapy

Answer 24

difficulty in establishing the proper dosage, do not cure psychological disorders, leading people to relapse when their symptoms are released because they stop taking drugs

Question 25

patients that benefit from ECT

Answer 25

biological therapy in which electric current is passed through the right hemisphere of the brain; usually reserved for patients with server depression who are suicidal

Question 26

what condition is cingulotomy used for?

Answer 26

psychosurgery

Question 27

e-therapy

Answer 27

online support group

Question 28

culturally sensitive therapy

Answer 28

a approach to therapy in which knowledge of clients’ cultural backgrounds guides the choice of therapeutic interventions

Question 29

gender-sensitive therapy

Answer 29

an approach to therapy that takes into account the effects of gender on both the therapist’s and the clients’s behavior

Question 30

what consumer reports found regarding psychotherapy

Answer 30

how the clients rate therapies
Overall clients fell as though they benefited substantially from psychotherapy
Clients seemed equally satisfied with their therapy, whether it was provided by a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or social worker
Patients who took a drug (Prozac/ Xanax) believed it helped them, but overall psychotherapy alone seemed to work about as well as psychotherapy plus drugs

Question 31

what is the relationship between time in therapy and improvement?

Answer 31

patients who were in therapy for more than 6 months did considerably better than the rest; vernally the longer a patient stays int therapy the more they improve

Question 32

psychiatrist

Answer 32

a medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of metal illness

Question 33

psychologist

Answer 33

an expert or specialist in psychology