Ch 15 Flashcards
Which of the following statements regarding treatment for psychological problems is true?
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Only people who have a mental disorder listed in the DSM-5 are allowed to get therapy.
The older you are the more likely you are to seek treatment.
Many people who need therapy don’t receive it.
People with less education are more likely to enter therapy than those with more education.
Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to seek treatment that whites.
Men are more likely than women to receive therapy.
Tolar suffers from chronic anxiety. He tends to worry constantly in a wide variety of situations and he’s sick of feeling this way. So, he decides to seek therapy. Tolar put considerable thought into what he wants to gain from therapy. Tolar’s primary goal is to make himself feel calmer and less anxious right away. He doesn’t particularly interesting in understanding the causes of his problems, he doesn’t want to know if something happened in childhood to make him anxious now, he just wants to put a stop to the anxiousness and worry. Based on Tolar’s beliefs, he is most likely to seek a therapist that emphasizes ____.
psychoanalysis
group therapy
biomedical drug therapy
insight therapy
Compared to psychologists, when they meet with clients with disorders, psychiatrists tend to
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lead group therapies more often.
emphasize biomedical treatments more often.
refuse to deal with the most severely disturbed patients.
rely on behavior therapies more often.
Behaviorist Therapists use lots of different techniques such as exposure therapy and systematic desensitization. Systematic desensitization involves
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uncovering repressed feelings regarding anxiety-arousing stimuli.
changing misconceptions regarding anxiety-arousing stimuli.
training to relax and then practicing relaxation while imagining anxiety arousing stimuli.
Re-interpreting anxiety-arousing stimuli so they are less anxiety-arousing.
All talk therapies are similar in that they focus on verbal interactions to enhance client’s self-knowledge as the main path to good mental health. Sometimes instead of being called “talk therapy” these methods are called ______.
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group therapy
client-centered therapy
insight therapy
social skills therapy
psychoanalysis
One of Freud’s psychoanalytic techniques is free association. In free association
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therapists freely express unconditional support for their client’s associations.
clients are expected to talk freely about their sexual issues and they are not allowed to stray into non-sex topics.
clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
clients relate the events of their dreams as they remember them.
Resistance
refers to the client’s reaction to sexual advances from the therapist.
refers to the subtle, primarily unconscious ways in which young children rebel against their parents’ demands.
involves a client’s largely unconscious defensive maneuvers intended to hide the deepest and most important problems.
is when a therapist runs into a problem that he is hesitant and reluctant to treat.
Goals of Carl Rogers’ client-centered therapy include helping clients to do all of the following except
hear their own words and feelings mirrored back to them by the therapist.
gain insight into their own psychological problems.
line up their self-concept so it is congruent with how others see them.
unlock the childhood sexual fixations contained in their unconscious.
feel warm and secure and supported.
Below are several true statements about group therapy. There is also a false statement. Pick the false statement.
Group therapy participants can provide much needed acceptance and emotional support to each other.
Research has shown that group therapy usually ends up costing a patient more than individual therapy.
In group therapy, participants basically function as therapists for each other.
It’s up to the therapist to select a good group of participants and to exclude anyone from the group who seems likely to be disruptive.
The therapist who leads a group often gets things started, then stays in the background and focuses mostly on promoting group cohesiveness.
In group therapy, participants provide acceptance and emotional support for each other.
If you want to get rid of your love of smoking or your love of alcohol or your love of porn, you might go to a therapist for aversion therapy. The purpose of aversion therapy is to
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replace your pleasant associations with negative responses using observational learning techniques.
replace your negative associations with positive associations using classical conditioning techniques.
replace your negative associations with positive associations using operant learning techniques.
replace your pleasant associations with negative responses using classical conditioning techniques.
During psychoanalysis, when transference happens during therapy
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the therapist transfers his feelings about one of his patients onto another of his patients.
the therapist quickly discourages it.
the patient ends up switching roles and becomes the therapist.
the patient transfers conflicting feelings about important people onto the therapist.
The purpose of behavior therapy is to
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apply the principles of learning and conditioning to change the client’s bad thoughts and bad habits.
uncover unconscious thoughts buried deep in the client’s mind.
help a client correct his habitual thinking errors.
allow the client to benefit from the support and love he never got from his parents.
Below are several true statements about cognitive therapy. There is also a false choice. Pick the false choice that doesn’t belong with cognitive therapy.
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The goal of cognitive therapy is to change habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders.
Examples of self-defeating statements include I’m not smart enough
Clients are taught to detect their automatic negative thoughts and self-defeating statements.
Psychologist Carl Rogers was a big supporter of cognitive therapy techniques.
Brian has been feeling anxious and tense as his final exams approach. He schedules an appointment with his doctor to find out if there is something he can take to help him feel more relaxed and less anxious. If Brian’s doctor prescribes a medication for the symptoms that Brian is experiencing, it would most likely be
Zoloft.
Prozac.
Xanax.
Lithium.
Below are several true statements about antipsychotic drugs. However one of the statements is false. Which of the following statements concerning antipsychotic drugs is false?
They are associated with severe side effects such as tardive dyskinesia.
These drugs work their magic very quickly, within the first couple hours after the patient first takes them.
They seem to affect the dopamine synapses.
They are used to reduce psychotic symptoms (such as hyperactivity, mental confusion, hallucinations and delusions) in individuals with schizophrenia.
