Ch: 16 (Therapies)

Question 1

Area of psychology that integrates science and theory to prevent and treat psychological disorders

Answer 1

Clinical Psychology

Question 2

Non-medical process that helps individuals with psychological disorders recognize and overcome their problems

Answer 2

Psychotherapy

Question 3

Treatments that reduce or eliminate the symptoms of psychological disorders by altering aspects of body functioning

Answer 3

Biological Therapies

Question 4

Administer drugs as a part of therapy to treat many disorders

Answer 4

Drug Therapy

Question 5

Anti-anxiety drugs are also known as….

Answer 5

Tranquilizers

Question 6

Most commonly used Anti-depressent

Answer 6

SSRI’s

Question 7

Medicine that is widely used to treat bipolar disorder

Answer 7

Lithium

Question 8

Powerful drugs that diminish agitated behavior, reduce tension, decrease hallucinations, improve social behavior and produce better sleep patterns in individuals who have a severe psychological disorder, especially schizophrenia

Answer 8

Antipsychotic Drugs

Question 9

Most widely used antipsychotic drug

Answer 9

Neuroleptics

Question 10

This treatment is used as a last resort for severe depression, PTSD, and bipolar. Designed to create seizures.

Answer 10

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Question 11

Processes used by mental health professionals to help individuals recognize, define, and overcome their psychological and interpersonal difficulties and improve their adjustment.

Answer 11

Psychotherapies

Question 12

The relationship between the therapist and client

Answer 12

Therapeutic Alliance

Question 13

A therapy that encourages insight and self-awareness, includes psychodynamic and humanistic therapies

Answer 13

Insight therapy

Question 14

Stress the importance of the unconscious mind, extensive interpretation by the therapist and the role of early-childhood experiences in the development of one’s problems.

Answer 14

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 15

Freud’s technique for analyzing one’s unconscious thoughts.

Answer 15

Psychoanalysis

Question 16

Technique of having individuals say aloud whatever comes to mind

Answer 16

Free Association

Question 17

Peoples release of emotional tension when they relive an emotionally charges and conflicting experience

Answer 17

Catharsis

Question 18

A psychoanalytic technique used to interpret a person’s dream

Answer 18

Dream analysis

Question 19

Treatment that is unique in their emphasis on self-healing capacities, that encourages clients to understand themselves and to grow personally

Answer 19

Humanistic Therapies

Question 20

Carl Rogers Therapy approach

Answer 20

Client Centered Therapy

Question 21

Provides a warm, supportive atmosphere to improve clients self-concept and encourage the client to gain insight into problems. Emphasis on the connections.

Answer 21

Client Centered Therapy

Question 22

Technique in which the therapist mirrors the client’s own feelings back to the clients

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Reflective Speech

Question 23

Approach in which therapist challenges clients to help them become more aware of their feelings and face their problems. Therapist pushed client.

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Gestalt Therapy

Question 24

Treatment based on the behavioral and social cognitive theories of learning, that use principles of learning to reduce or eliminate maladaptive behavior

Answer 24

Behavior Therapies

Question 25

A method that treats anxiety by getting the person to associate deep relaxation with increasingly intense anxiety producing situations

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Systematic Desensitization

Question 26

Exposing individuals to feared stimuli to an excessive degree while not allowing them to avoid the stimulant

Answer 26

Flooding

Question 27

Repeated pairing of undesirable behavior (Smoking, drinking) with an aversive stimulus (Shock, Nausea)

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Aversive Conditioning

Question 28

Treatments emphasizing that cognition, or thoughts, are the main source of psychological problems and that attempt to change the individual’s feelings and behaviors by changing cognitions. Skill development, we have control over our thinking and feeling.

Answer 28

Cognitive Therapies

Question 29

Consists of a combination of cognitive therapy, with its emphasis on reducing self-defeating thoughts, and behavior therapy, with its emphasis on changing behavior, focus: building self efficacy

Answer 29

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Question 30

Use of combination techniques from different therapies based on the therapists judgment of which particular methods will provide the greatest benefit for the client.

Answer 30

Integrative therapies

Question 31

Views the individual as part of a social system of relationships that are influenced by various social and cultural factors

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Sociocultural approaches

Question 32

Brings together individuals who share a particular psychological disorder in sessions that are typically led by a mental health professional

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Group Therapy

Question 33

Voluntary organizations of individuals who get together on a regular basis to discuss topics of common interest

Answer 33

Self-Help support groups

Question 34

What do SSRI’s do

Answer 34

Increase norepinephrine