Ch 13 Smartbook Flashcards
Treatment in which a trained professional uses psychological techniques to help a person overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, resolve problems in living, or bring about personal growth is known as ______
Psychotherapy
This professional specializes in assessing and treating psychological difficulties and has a Ph.D or Psy.D. or master’s degree in certain provinces.
Clinical psychologist
Which statement best represents behavioural therapy?
Which of the following rewards a person for desired behaviour with an item such as poker chip or some kind of play money?
Token system
______ treatment approaches teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional thoughts about the world and themselves.
Cognitive
_____is treatment in which a trained professional uses psychological techniques to help someone overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, resolve problems in living, or bring about personal growth.
Psychotherapy
The goal of this type of therapy is to help clients change their irrational beliefs and adopt more effective ways of thinking:
Rational-emotive behaviour therapy
Clinical Psychologists
specialize in assessment and treatment of psychological difficulties.
_________treatment approaches build on the basic processes of learning and assume that both abnormal and normal behaviour are learned.
behavioural
_______therapy has the underlying rationale that people have control of their behaviour, can make choices about their lives, and are essentially able to solve their own problems.
Humanistic
In ________therapy people meet with a therapist and receive support and advise from other group members
group therapy
Which treatment approach focuses on an individual’s thought processes?
Cognitive
The goal of rational-emotive behaviour therapy is to help clients eliminate maladaptive thoughts and beliefs and adopt more effective thinking. To accomplish this goal, what type of role do therapists take?
active, directive role
What type of therapy seeks to use the research literature to determine the best practices for treating a specific disorder?
Evidence-based practice
What kind of therapy has the underlying rationale that people are essentially able to solve their own problems?
Humanistic
In Blank______ therapy, several unrelated people meet with a therapist to discuss some aspect of their psychological functioning.
group
Which of the following techniques are most typical of the biomedical therapy approach to psychological disorders?
Electroconvulsive shock treatment
Pharmaceuticals
Psychosurgery
The goal of this type of therapy is to help clients change their irrational beliefs and adopt more effective ways of thinking:
Rational-emotive behaviour therapy
therapy is the control of psychological disorders through the use of drugs.
Drug
______ therapy has the underlying rationale that people have control of their behaviour, can make choices about their lives, and are essentially able to solve their own problems.
Humanistic
Taking small doses of psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”) or other psychedelics is called
micro dosing
Medical practitioners who use
________ therapy routinely use drugs, surgery, or electric shock rather than focusing on the patients past traumas.
biomedical
is a procedure in which an electric current of 70-150 volts is briefly administered to a patient’s head.
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Brain scan neurofeedback has shown promising results for which disorders?
anxiety
depression
A branch of psychology that aims to prevent problems before they start through seeking to understand how social issues and environmental conditions affect and interact with individuals and their well-being.
Community psychology
The purpose of brain scan neurofeedback is to
modify a patient’s brain activity to help them better cope with their symptoms.
