Chapter 14-Therapy

Question 1

What is psychotherapy?

Answer 1

Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.

Question 2

What is biomedical therapy?

Answer 2

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.

Question 3

What is the eclectic approach?

Answer 3

An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

Question 4

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 4

Freud’s therapeutic technique used in treating psychological disorders.

Question 5

What is resistance?

Answer 5

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

Question 6

What is interpretation?

Answer 6

In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.

Question 7

What is transference?

Answer 7

In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.

Question 8

What is psychodynamic theory?

Answer 8

Therapeutic approach derived from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.

Question 9

What is behavior therapy?

Answer 9

Therapeutic approach that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

Question 10

What is counter conditioning?

Answer 10

Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggered unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.

Question 11

What is systematic desensitization?

Answer 11

A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant,relaxed state with gradually increasing, anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.

Question 12

What is aversive conditioning?

Answer 12

A type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).

Question 13

What is cognitive therapy?

Answer 13

Therapeutic approach that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.

Question 14

What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?

Answer 14

A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).

Question 15

What is family therapy?

Answer 15

Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.

Question 16

What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?

Answer 16

A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.

Question 17

What is psychosurgery?

Answer 17

Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.

Question 18

In psychoanalysis, patients may experience strong feelings for their analyst, which is called _. Patients are said to demonstrate anxiety when they put up mental blocks around sensitive memories- showing _. The analyst will attempt to provide insight into the underlying anxiety by offering a(n) _ of the mental blocks.

Answer 18

transference; resistance; interpretation

Question 19

Exposure therapies and aversive conditioning are applications of _ conditioning. Token economies are an application of _ conditioning.

Answer 19

classical; operant

Question 20

Which therapeutic technique has focused more on the present and future than the past, and has promoted unconditional positive regard and active listening?

Answer 20

humanistic therapy- specifically Carl Roger’s client-centered (or person-centered) therapy.

Question 21

Behavior therapy is more likely to be helpful in those with the _ (most/least) clearly defined problems.

Answer 21

Most

Question 22

Those who undergo psychotherapy are _ (more/least) likely to show improvement than those who do not undergo psychotherapy.

Answer 22

More

Question 23

The drugs that are given most often to treat depression are called _. The drugs that are now often given to treat anxiety disorders are called _. Schizophrenia is often treated with _ drugs.

Answer 23

antidepressants; antidepressants; antipsychotics

Question 24

Severe depression that has not responded to other therapy may be treated with _ _, which can cause memory loss. More moderate neural stimulation techniques designed to help alleviate depression include _ _ stimulation, - stimulation, and _ magnetic stimulation.

Answer 24

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); vagus nerve; deep-brain; repetitive transcranial