Chapter 16

Question 1

What is Psychotherapy?

Answer 1

designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives

Question 2

Psychodynamic Therapies are not good for ______.

Answer 2

Psychotic disorder

Question 3

What type of theory aims at increase awareness and heightened self-acceptance, cause people to think more realistically and become more tolerant of other?

Answer 3

Humanistic Therapy: Person centered therapy

Question 4

Aims to integrate different and sometimes opposing aspects of personality into a unified sense of self
Recognizes the importance of awareness, acceptance, and expression of feelings
Two-chair technique: Ask clients to move from chair to chair, creating a dialogue with two conflicting aspects of their personalities.

Answer 4

gestalt therapy

Question 5

SD gradually exposes clients to anxiety producing situations through the use of imagined scenes

Based on principle of reciprocal inhibition - we can’t be anxious and relaxed at the same time

Uses counter conditioning by repeatedly pairing an incompatible relaxation response with anxiety

Gradual exposure to what you fear
This is very affective for…?

Answer 5

Many anxiety disorders, like phobias, OCD, and PTSD

Question 6

Acting event, Beliefs, consequences, relate to what type of therapy? ( Test grade C)

Answer 6

Rational Emotive Behaviour theory

Question 7

Harmful therapies include

Answer 7

Restraint therapy, scared straight, crisis debriefing

Question 8

What is Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Answer 8

Used to treat serve problems depression and schizophrenia it involves electrical pulses to the brain that produce a seizure

Question 9

What is a last resort method used for sevre cases of OCD depression and bipolar disorders?

Answer 9

Psycho surgery