Chapter 15

Question 1

Clinical psychologists

Answer 1

specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems

Question 2

Psychiatrists

Answer 2

physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders

Question 3

Insight therapies

Answer 3

involve verbal interactions intended to enhance clients self-knowledge, and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior

Question 4

Psychoanalysis

Answer 4

an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses

Question 5

Client-Centered therapy

Answer 5

an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy

Question 6

Group therapy

Answer 6

the simultaneous treatment of several clients in a group

Question 7

Behavior therapy

Answer 7

involve the application of the principles of learning and conditioning to direct efforts to change clients’ maladaptive behaviors

Question 8

systematic desensitization

Answer 8

used to reduce clients’ phobic responses

Question 9

cognitive-behavioral therapy

Answer 9

uses combinations of verbal interventions and behavior modification techniques to help clients change maladaptive patterns of thinking

Question 10

cognitive therapy

Answer 10

uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders

Question 11

Biomedical therapies

Answer 11

physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders

Question 12

Commonly prescribed medication in the US

Answer 12

anti depressant drugs

Question 13

Electroconvulsive therapy (EMT)

Answer 13

biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions