chapter 17

Question 1

What’s psychotherapy?

Answer 1

therapy through psychological techniques

Question 2

What are electric therapists?

Answer 2

use different kinds of therapies

Question 3

What are the 2 components of psychodynamic theory?

Answer 3

psychoanalysis and brief psychodynamic therapy

Question 4

What is free association?

Answer 4

sit behind client and tell them to say anything

Question 5

What is resistance?

Answer 5

defensive mechanism against therapy, sign of sensitive topic

Question 6

What is transference?

Answer 6

client responds irrationally to the analyst as if they were an important figure from client’s past

Question 7

What does brief psychodynamic therapy focus on?

Answer 7

life problems rather than rebuilding personality

Question 8

What does inter-personal therapy focus on?

Answer 8

marital conflict, loss or social skills

Question 9

What does humanistic therapy focus on?

Answer 9

future and present (not past)

Question 10

What are the 2 types of humanistic therapy?

Answer 10

client-centered therapy and gestalt therapy

Question 11

What kind of a relationship is made in client-centered therapy?

Answer 11

one to foster self-exploration

Question 12

What is a Rogerian?

Answer 12

refer to person as client not a patient

Question 13

What are the therapist attributes in client-centered therapy?

Answer 13

unconditional positive regard, empathy and genuineness

Question 14

What is unconditional positive regard?

Answer 14

trust, acceptance, non-judgement

Question 15

Who’s the pioneer of client-centered therapy?

Answer 15

Carl Rogers

Question 16

Who’s the pioneer of gestalt therapy?

Answer 16

Perls

Question 17

What is empty-chair technique?

Answer 17

imagine mom sitting in chair and talk to her

Question 18

What does gestalt therapy involve and how is it done?

Answer 18

role play and in groups

Question 19

What does cognitive therapy focus on?

Answer 19

present not past

Question 20

What’s the ABCD model?

Answer 20

Activating event
Belief system
Consequences of that appraisal
Distributing the erroneous belief system

Question 21

What’s Ellis’ Rational-Emotive Therapy?

Answer 21

people make unrealistic demands of themselves, Ellis disagrees that events cause emotions

Question 22

What is fear in Ellis’ rational-emotive therapy?

Answer 22

result of you thinking unreasonable thoughts of yourself

Question 23

What is Beck’s cognitive therapy?

Answer 23

helps depressed people realize their thoughts not their situation makes them depressed

Question 24

What’s Meichenbaum’s self-instructional training?

Answer 24

treats stress and coping

Question 25

What are the 3 classical conditioning treatments for behaviour therapy?

Answer 25

Exposure, aversion therapy, systematic desensitization

Question 26

What does exposure assume?

Answer 26

phobias are learned,

Question 27

What does exposure use?

Answer 27

flooding (actual exposure) and implosion therapy (imagined exposure)

Question 28

What is aversion therapy?

Answer 28

pair unwanted behaviour with a bad USC

Question 29

What is systematic desensitization?

Answer 29

use counterconditioning to make patient associate CS with relocation instead of fear

Question 30

What's in vivo desensitization?

Answer 30

using real life scenes for systematic desensitization

Question 31

What are the 2 operant conditioning treatments for behaviour therapy?

Answer 31

positive reinforcement and punishment

Question 32

What does operant conditioning work well for?

Answer 32

schizophrenia, disturbed children, mental retardation

Question 33

What does long term hospitalization do to a schizophrenic person?

Answer 33

results in loss of job social, personal-care and job skills

Question 34

How is positive reinforcement enforced?

Answer 34

token economy

Question 35

What kind of behaviours is punishment used for?

Answer 35

self destructive behaviours of autistic children (requires consent)

Question 36

What are the 2 third wave cognitive therapies?

Answer 36

acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy

Question 37

What is the acceptance component of the acceptance and commitment theory?

Answer 37

teach people notice and accept their thoughts snd feelings, even if they're bad

Question 38

What is the commitment component of the acceptance and commitment theory?

Answer 38

examine one's life and set goals for what's important, committing to achieve them

Question 39

What is dialectical behaviour theory used to treat?

Answer 39

borderline personality disorder

Question 40

Why do women have more mental health problems?

Answer 40

poverty, lack of opportunity, multiple roles, violence/abuse,

Question 41

What do psychoanalysts believe about recovery?

Answer 41

wouldn't happen without therapy

Question 42

What's the dodo bird verdict?

Answer 42

all therapies appear to be equally effective

Question 43

What are the 3 factors that influence outcome?

Answer 43

techniques, quality of relationship and client variables

Question 44

What's the dose-response effect listed under technique?

Answer 44

relationship between amount of treatment and outcome

Question 45

What are anti-anxiety drugs?

Answer 45

reduce anxiety without disturbing alertness

Question 46

What happens when anti-anxiety drugs stop being taken?

Answer 46

symptoms returns

Question 47

What is common to people who take anti-mania drugs?

Answer 47

they miss the high of mania

Question 48

When is relapse common with anti depression drugs?

Answer 48

when drugs are taken alone instead of with therapy

Question 49

What are tricyclics?

Answer 49

antidepressant that prevents reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin

Question 50

What is clomipramine?

Answer 50

tricyclic used for OCD, depression

Question 51

What are monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors?

Answer 51

antidepressant used with more severe side effects

Question 52

What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)?

Answer 52

antidepressants with milder side effects

Question 53

What's another word for antipsychotic drugs?

Answer 53

major tranquilizers

Question 54

How do antipsychotic drugs work?

Answer 54

decreasing dopamine

Question 55

What do antipsychotic drugs have a risk of causing?

Answer 55

tardive dyskinesia- uncontrollable face/tongue movements, limbs may fail, irreversible

Question 56

What is clozaril?

Answer 56

doesn't cause duskiness and reduces both positive and negative symptoms

Question 57

What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?

Answer 57

someone noticed schizophrenia and epilepsy never together, so induced seizures to treat schizophrenia

Question 58

Is ECT useful?

Answer 58

not for anxiety disorders or schizophrenia but works for depression

Question 59

What is psychosurgery?

Answer 59

remove brain tissue to change disordered behaviour, in absence of obvious organic damage

Question 60

What is cingulotomy?

Answer 60

cuts bundle near corpus callosum (cingulum bundle)

Question 61

What does cingulotomy treat?

Answer 61

depression, OCD (can cause seizure, irreversible)

Question 62

What's a deinstitutionalization movement?

Answer 62

transfer focus of treatment from mental institutions to the community as a whole

Question 63

What is the revolving door phenomenon?

Answer 63

if community unprepared results in repeated hospitalizations and homelessness for mental health patients

Question 64

What is a situation focused prevention?

Answer 64

reduce environmental causes disorders and enhance factors that prevent them

Question 65

What does situation focussed prevention reduce and increase?

Answer 65

reduce- unemployment, discrimination, poverty | increase- education, family functioning, sense of connection to community

Question 66

What is competency focussed prevention?

Answer 66

increase personal resources and coping skills

Question 67

What does competency focussed prevention increase?

Answer 67

stress resistance, social and vocational competencies, self esteem