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What is the prescribed tx for smoking, excessive drinking, or paraphilias?
Aversive counterconditioning
What is the prescribed tx for OCD and phobias?
Flooding or
Exposure with response prevention
What kind of theorist is Peter Lewinsohn! And what did he say causes depression?
Behaviorist and low rates of behavior and therefore lack of reinforcer from the environment.
What is marital behavioral therapy?
Richard Stewart, one of the pioneers of marital behavioral therapy, developed an approach that combines operant learning principles with social exchange theory.
What kind of therapy makes use of restoring and unique outcomes?
Narrative therapy.
What is most characteristic of the Milan group?
Positive connotation and circular questioning.
Who created the ABC model?
Albert Ellis. The ABC model is there is a an activating event, then there is B a belief for interpretation of the event, and finally there is C a consequence in terms of an emotional and behavioral reaction to the belief.
Who created collaborative empiricism?
Beck’s cognitive behavioral therapy.
What is collaborative empiricism?
In collaborative empiricism, the therapist encourages the patient to maintain an open mind and take a rational approach to thoughts and beliefs using principles of logic and the scientific method. Another part of collaborative empiricism is belief testing which is hypothesis testing in which the patient tries to see if a belief is true by testing its validity in the real world; however, this is only part of collaborative empiricism. Other collaborative strategies include: guy did discovery, supporting through evidence, and looking for alternative theories.
What is the cornerstone of operant conditioning?
Modifying behavioral contingencies.
What are the four stages in Masters and Johnsons sexual response cycle?
Excitement, plateau, orgasms, and resolution.
In the excitement phase, arousal is initiated either through physical factors like touching or psychological factors like fantasy.
In the plateau phase it involves further increases and stimulation and physiological functions like heart rate and respiration.
During the orgasm phase, the person experiences intense implantable releases tension, and ejaculation occurs in the mail.
The resolution stage involves a gradual return to pre-excitement levels.
Which Masters and Johnsons sexual response stage is the focus of sensate focus? Also counter conditioning.
The excitement stage.
According to gestalt therapy, interjection results in what?
Unexamined values and beliefs. Introduction involves taking in what others say whole, without one’s own critical analysis.
What does projection result in?
Suspiciousness and paranoia.
What results in a lack of awareness of conflicts?
Confluence.
What involves turning on oneself the behavior and emotions one wants to inflict on others which includes self harm?
Retroflexion.
What is expressed emotion?
Expressed emotion is manifested by a critical, hostile and emotionally over involved communication style between family members.
What is a very good predictor of prognosis for individuals with schizophrenia?
Employment
What has been shown to reduce subsequent hospitalizations for patients with schizophrenia?
Researchers found that a high level of expressed emotion in families tend to result in greater incidence of relapse in cases of schizophrenia expressed emotion is manifested by a critical, hostile and emotionally over involved communication style between family members. It is better to help the family members develop a more supportive communication style so the patient can benefit from the positive aspects of family involvement.
What medication is used to treat smoking cessation?
The antidepressant Zyban or Buproprion and the nicotine patch.
What kind of success rates do smoking cessation programs usually receive?
15 to 20%
Does quitting smoking improve longevity regardless of how long the person has been smoking?
Yes
What kind of theorist was Peter Leeinsohn And what did he believe helped depression?
He was a behaviorist who believe in the principle of teaching depressed patients had to elicit higher rates of reinforcement from the environment which thereby increases rates of behavior and reduce depression so higher rates of behavior.
What kind of therapy a solution focused family therapy? And who developed it?
Steve D shazer there and his colleagues developed solution focused therapy. It is a post modern family therapy.