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According to Hippocreates, mental disorders occur when our ____ are imbalanced

a. organs

b. blood levels

c. humors

d. spirits

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c. humors

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Humanism was a philosophy that developed during the Renaissance and it emphasized:

a. building asylums in private homes

b. human welfare

c. financial savings

d. exorcism

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b. human welfare

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Dr. Ebrahimi is a psychiatrist, who strongly believes that mental disorders all have a neurological explanation and can be treated with medication. Dr Ebrahimi subscribes to which perspective of mental disorder?

a. somatogenic

b. behavioural

c. psychogenic

d. psychodynamic

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a. somatogenic

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According to the psychodynamic assumption of early experience:

a. mental illness arises from biological explanations

b. most of our psychological processes are unconscious

c. your vulnerability for mental illness is set in childhood

d. early experiences set in motion processes that impact our life

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d. early experiences set in motion processes that impact our life

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One of the major differences between psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy is:

a. gender of the practitioner

b. focus on unconscious conflict

c. length and frequency of treatment

d. the importance of early childhood experiences

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c. length and frequency of treatment

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Dr. Narlee does her best to be warm, empathetic, and supportive with all of her therapy clients. Her style is influenced by:

a. psychodynamic theory

b. cognitive-behavioural therapy

c. behavior theory

d. person-centered theory

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d. person-centered theory

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A patient who is afraid of snakes is repeatedly shown images of snakes so that he will habituate to them, meaning that he:

a. wants to buy a pet snake

b. feels anxious but does it anyway

c. no longer responds with an anxious reaction

d. feels more anxiety with each image

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c. no longer responds with an anxious reaction

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Automatic thoughts refer to:

a. the thoughts that mentally ill people have

b. thoughts that we experience spontaneously

c. our thoughts about emotions

d. thoughts based on what our parents told us when we were young

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b. thoughts that we experience spontaneously

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In her work with her clients, Dr. Hills focuses on identifying and then changing their maladaptive thoughts and behaviours. She is practicing:

a. person-centered therapy

b. dialectical behavior therapy

c. psychodynamic therapy

d. cognitive behavioural therapy

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d. cognitive behavioural therapy

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How do mindfullness-based therapies propose to treat mental illness?

a. by eliminating suffering

b. by understanding how our early childhood experiences influence us

c. by providing unconditional positive regard

d. by changing our relationship with our negative internal experiences

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d. by changing our relationship with our negative internal experiences

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Dialectical behaviour therapy was developed to treat:

a. eating disorders

b. major depression

c. borderline personality disorder

d. social anxiety disoder

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c. borderline personality disorder

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Most mental disorders are polygentic, meaning:

a. genetics are not involved in the disorder

b. they are the result of an abnormality in 1 identifiable gene

c. the genetic source of the disorder is unknown

d. they are linked to abnormalities in multiple genes

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d. they are linked to abnormalities in multiple genes

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Which of the following can sensitive the HPA axis, making it over-responsive to stress?

a. early childhood trauma

b. caregivers to whom we are securely attached

c. high IQ

d. excessive boredom

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a. early childhood trauma

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Joni is looking for a treatment provider who will combine research evidence, her own preferences, and their expertise in order to treat her anxiety disorder. Joni is looking for someone who practices:

a. treatments that harm

b. evidence-based practice

c. empirically-supported treatments

d. psychodynamic therapy

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b. evidence-based practice

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Which of the following is NOT a criterion of treatments that harm, according to Lilienfeld?

a. the treatment causes harmful effects on clients or their relatives

b. the client doesn’t like the therapy

c. the harm has been replicated by independent study

d. the harmful effects are enduring and not merely a short-term worsening of symptoms during treatment

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b. the client doesn’t like the therapy

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framework through which to understand, organize, and predict human behavior

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theoretical orientations

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framework for how to treat psychopathology

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therapeutic orientations

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first model of psychotherapy by Sigmund Freud, used to treat people with psychological disorders

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psychoanalysis therapy

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general term referring to firms of psychotherapy based on the Freudian tradition that seeks to help people gain insight into and resolve the dynamic struggles or conflicts between forced within the unconscious mind believed to lie at the root of abnormal behavior

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psychodynamic therapy

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therapy that focuses on the client’s subjective, conscious experiences

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humanistic therapy

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therapy that creates conditions of warmth and acceptance and is nondirective

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person-centered therapy

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model that focuses on the role of learning in explaining both normal and abnormal behavior, includes classical and operant conditioning

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behavioural model

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studies cognitions, the thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and attitudes, by which we come to know ourselves and the world around us

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cognitive model

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therapy that helps someone stay focused on the present and accept the thoughts feelings they are having

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acceptance approach

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therapy that focuses on one’s awareness of bodily sensations, thoughts, and the outside environment

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mindfulness approach

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talkes about the body itself and the problems could be rooted in the brain or nervous system

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biological model

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field of study that examines the effects of therapeutic or psychiatric drugs

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psychopharmacology

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the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture and preferences

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evidence-based practice

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specific psychological treatments for a particular population/disorder (e.g., individuals with Panic Disorder) that have been proven effective in controlled research

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empirically-supported treatment

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