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Chapter 14 - Methods of Therapy Flashcards

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What treatment uses psychological rather than biological means?

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Psychotherapy

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What treatment of psychological disorders generally involves conversations between patient and therapist?

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Psychotherapy

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Which therapy uses free association, dream analysis, analysis of resistance, transference to uncover repressed memories, impulses and conflicts thought to cause psychological disorder?

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Psychotherapy

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Which therapy proposes that awareness of reasons for behavior leads to diminishing symptoms?

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Psychotherapy

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What is any therapy based on the notion that psychological well-being depends on self-understanding?

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Insight therapy

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What is a psychological technique used to explore the unconscious?

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Free association

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What psychological technique is used by therapists to find reoccurring themes by having patients reveal whatever thoughts or images come to mind?

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Free association

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What is the term for patient’s attempting to avoid expressing or revealing painful or embarrassing thoughts or feelings during psychoanalytic therapy?

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Resistance

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What is an intense emotional situation occurring in psychoanalysis when one comes to behave toward the analyst as one had behaved toward a significant figure from the past?

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Transference

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What is a situation in psychoanalysis where a patient is able to re-enact troubling experiences, allowing them to deal with unresolved childhood conflicts?

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Transference

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What is the brief psychodynamic theory?

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Traditional psychoanalysis typically takes months or years to run its course and bring resolution to a situation, so clients and therapist agree on presenting issue and moving right to it.

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What therapy has the goal of self-actualization?

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Humanistic therapy

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Where do humanistic therapists view the problems coming from in their patient’s life?

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The natural tendency toward self-actualization is blocked by the person or others (can’t ascend the hierarchy of needs)

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What is another name for person-centred therapy?

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Rogerian therapy

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What is a non-directive humanist therapy in which the therapist creates a warm, accepting atmosphere?

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Person-centered therapy

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What therapy frees the client to be themselves and release their natural tendency toward positive growth by using unconditional positive regard and personal subjective reality?

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Person-centered therapy

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What is a therapy with an emphasis placed on finding the meaning of life?

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Existential therapy

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Who believed that individuals choose the kind of person they want to become?

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Nietzsche & Gardner

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What is a therapy emphasizing the importance of clients’ fully experiencing in the present moment their feelings, thoughts and actions?

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Gestalt therapy

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Is Gestalt therapy directive or non-directive?

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Directive

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What is an approach to therapy in which the therapist takes an active role in determine the course of therapy sessions and provides answers and suggestions to the client?

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Directive therapy

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What therapy is specifically designed to help patients cope with 4 types of problems associated with major depression?

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Interpersonal therapy

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What are 4 types of problems associated with major depression?

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1) unusual or severe responses to the death of a loved one
2) interpersonal role disputes
3) difficulty in adjusting to role transitions such as divorce, career change, and retirement
4) deficits in interpersonal skills

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What is a therapy based on the assumption that an individual’s problem is caused or maintained in part by problems within the family unit?

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Couple & family therapy

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What is a therapy usually involving 7-10 people meeting regularly with one or more therapists to resolve personal problems?

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Group therapy

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What form of therapy would an AA meeting fall under?

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Self-help group

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What is a form of therapy in which clients meet regularly with one or two therapists to resolve personal issues?

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Self-help group

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What is a group therapy involving one group member acting out a personal problem situation or relationship?

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Psychodrama

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What therapy involves individuals role-playing with a group to help the group gain insight into the nature of the problem?

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Psychodrama

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What is an “intense” emotional group experience designed to promote personal growth and self-knowledge?

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Encounter group

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What is a treatment approach that employs the principles of operant conditioning, classical conditioning, and observational learning theory?

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Behavior modification

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What therapy has a goal to eliminate maladaptive behaviours and replace them with more adaptive responses?

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Behavior modification

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What is a behavior technique used to encourage desirable behaviours by reinforcing them with tokens that can be exchanged later for desired objects, activities and privileges?

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Token economies

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What is a technique used in elementary schools, for example special person awards, and jails?

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Token economies

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What is a behavior modification therapy used to treat OCD by exposing the client to objects and situations generating increasing anxiety?

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Exposure and response prevention

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What behavior modification therapy is based on John B. Watson’s work with Peter and his fear of the white rabbit?

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Exposure and response prevention

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What is a behavior modification therapy used to rid clients of harmful or socially undesirable behavior by pairing it with a pain, sickening or otherwise aversive stimulus?

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Aversion therapy

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What is a therapy based on classical conditioning and the work of John B. Watson?

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Aversion therapy

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What therapy is used when a person is trained to relax in the presence of their fear object?

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Systematic Desensitization

40
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What involves exposing a person to the object of their fear for an extended period?

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Flooding

41
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What is a behaviour modification therapy in which an appropriate response is modelled?

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Participant modelling

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What therapy does the therapist take client through graduated steps?

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Participant modelling

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What therapy is based on Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory?

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Participant modelling

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What therapy involves the client attempting to imitate the behaviour of their mentor?

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Participant modelling

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What is a directive and confrontational form of psychotherapy that challenges the clients irrational beliefs and consequences of those beliefs?

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Rational Emotive Behavior therapy

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What therapy is based on the work of Albert Ellis?

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Rational Emotive Behavior therapy

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What therapy does the therapist have the role to challenge the client’s irrational beliefs and expectation and correct maladaptive behaviours by investigating A-B-C?

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Rational emotive Behavior therapy

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What is a therapy based on the belief that changing how a person thinks about a situation can result in changes in how a person feels and behaves in the situation, even if the situation doesn’t change?

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Cognitive therapies

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What therapy is about how what one thinks and feels affects their behavior and thus one’s thoughts must be monitored and changed to effect changes in one’s behavior?

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Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy

50
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What approach is similar to Albert Ellis’ but more gentle?

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Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy

51
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What is a therapy encouraging clients to gain awareness of current cognitions and see the irrationality in their ways of thinking?

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Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy

52
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When are drug therapies effective?

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For disorders that do not respond to psychotherapy

53
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What is a drug derived from metal lithium prescribed to individuals who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder?

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Lithium

54
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What are side effects of lithium?

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Hand tremors, memory impairment, excessive thirst and urination

55
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What treatment is used for SAD?

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Light therapy & vitamin D

56
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How does light therapy work?

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Person sits in front of intense lights for several hours to regulate melatonin production

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What therapy involves passing an electric current (causing a convulsion) through the head?

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Electroconvulsive therapy

58
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What are side effects of ECT?

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Memory loss

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What is a technique in which an electromagnetic coil placed on the scalp generates powerful magnetic field that stimulates brain neurons?

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation

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What treatment is used for major depressive disorder, obsessive-depressive disorder and schizophrenia?

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation

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What is a psychosurgery technique pioneered by Antonio Egas Moniz?

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Prefrontal lobotomy

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What procedure involves severing the connection of the frontal lobes to the thalamus?

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Prefrontal Lobotomy

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What procedure did Canada discontinue?

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Prefrontal Lobotomy

64
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What is a technique that implants electrodes into the brain?

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Deep Brain Stimulation

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What psychosurgery technique delivers electrical pulses that stimulate the brain in the selected region?

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Deep Brain Stimulation

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What psychosurgery technique is used to treat people with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder who don’t respond to drugs?

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Deep Brain Stimulation

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