Chapter 16: Treatment (7B)

Question 1

What is behavioural therapy?

Answer 1

The goal of behavioural therapy is to discover specific problem causing behaviours an replace them with healthy behaviours

Question 2

What is classical conditioning meant to do?

Answer 2

Change a clients dysfunctional reaction to a specific stimuli

Question 3

What id systematic desensitization used for?

Answer 3

It is effective in treating phobias, PTSD, and asthma attacks

Question 4

What is aversion therapy/

Answer 4

It increases the anxiety response to harmful stimuli desired by the client (excessive drinking and smoking)

Question 5

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 5

Consistently provide rewards for desirable behaviour and withhold rewards for undesirable behaviour
- successful in hospitalized psycotic patients
- work best in institutions and schools

Question 6

What is modeling?

Answer 6

Therapists exhibit appropriate behaviours so client can imitate, refers, and, in or pater behaviours into their lives.

Question 7

What is social skills training?

Answer 7

Therapists discuss social deficits and role play social situations with the client to model more appropriate social behaviours

Question 8

What are the strengths of the behavioural approach/

Answer 8

• Widely studied in research and strongly supported
• Effective for us ours problems indulging specific fears, Social deficits, and intellectual disabilities

Question 9

What are some criticisms to the behavioural model?

Answer 9

• Improvements made are not always maintained
• Not effective when psychological disorders are broad or vague

Question 10

What are the cognitive views on abnormal behaviour?

Answer 10

Disorders are caused by maladaptive thinking

Question 11

What is Ellis’s rational emotive therapy?

Answer 11

The goal is to identify irrational assumptions that lead to disordered emotions, behaviours and thinking.

Question 12

What are some of Ellis’s teqniques?

Answer 12

• point out irrational assumptions
• Model the use of alternative assumptions
• Uses cognitive restructuring
• Effective for anxiety and assertiveness problems

Question 13

What is Beck’s cognitive therapy?

Answer 13

• Widely used for depression
• Therapists helps clients identity negative thoughts and errors in logic
• Guide them to apply alternate ways of thinking
• About 2/3s of depressed people imporve
• Also used for panic and anxiety disorder

Question 14

What is the Second wave CB therapies?

Answer 14

• Recognize problematic thoughts as just thoughts
• Clients accept thought rather than judge in or try to eliminate them
• Helpful treatment for generalized anxiety disorder
• Includes mindfulness, acceptance, and midlful mediation

Question 15

Strengths of the CB therapies?

Answer 15

• Well supported by research
• Good at treating depression, social anxiety, GAD< panic disorder, sexual dysfunctions,and other disorders

Question 16

Criticisms of thr CB therapies?

Answer 16

• Role of cognition unclear for some disorders
• Unclear wether cognitive features, behavioural fetuses, or a combination are effective

Question 17

What is the humanistic approach?

Answer 17

They helped clients look at themselves and their situations more accurate and acceptingly. They expect that clients will then be better Abel actualize their full potential as humans

Question 18

Hat is rogers client centred therapy?

Answer 18

Humanistic therapy designed to help clients experience unconditional positive regard and look at themselves honestly and acceptingly.

Question 19

What should theorists doing rogers client centred method display?

Answer 19

• unconditional positive regard - total acceptance of client
• Actuate empathy - skillful listening
• Genuineness - sincere communication

Question 20

What is he result of rogers client centred therapy?

Answer 20

Clients will eventually come to recognize and value their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviours, which helps achieve self-actualization

Question 21

What is Gestalt therapy?

Answer 21

Humanistic approach that guides clients towards self-acceptance by challenging and frustrating them

Question 22

What are some tequines included in Geslalt therapy?

Answer 22

Skillful frustration
Role Playing
Rules

Question 23

What is existential therapy?

Answer 23

Existential theorists encourage clients to accept responsibility for their lives and their problems. They help clients recognize their freedoms that they may choose different paths and live more meaning full lives. They also place great emphasis on the relationship between therapist and client ad try to create an atmosphere of honest, shared learning and growth.

Question 24

What are the strengths of the humanistic and existential therapies?

Answer 24

• Emphaise aspects of psychology that are mission from other therapies
• Emphasize positive human qualities

Question 25

What are the criticisms of the humanistic and existential therapies?

Answer 25

Difficult to research, little research has been done