Clinical Psychology

Question 0

What are c’mon strategies used by therapists using structured learning therapy?

Answer 0

Social skills training
Modeling
Role playing
Skill instruction 
Performance appraisal

Question 1

What is the difference in the use if transference between brief and long-term psychodynamic therapy?

Answer 1

Brief discourages a full-scale transference neurosis. Positive transference is seen as an important contributor to therapy process.

Question 2

Abnormal regulation of melatonin levels is associated with which disorder?

Answer 2

Mood disorder with seasonal pattern bc it tends to respond to light therapy and melatonin levels are affected by lgbt-dark cycles

Question 3

What symptom of depression are older adults least likely to demonstrate?

Answer 3

Sadness

Question 4

What did Eysenck’s 1952 study find?

Answer 4

72% of untreated subjects improved vs 64% of subjects of eclectic and 44% of psychoanalytic. Results challenged the effectiveness of psychotherapy tx.

Question 5

What therapy is Bowen known for?

Answer 5

Extended family therapy…rooted in psychoanalytic therapy

Question 6

Characteristics of successful smoking cessation

Answer 6

Age 35 or older
Married or living with partner
Later age when started

Question 7

Risk factors for smoking relapse

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Young
Single
Early onset

Question 8

According to RET, pathology is created and maintained by…

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Biological predisposition and early life experiences. Symptoms are maintained by self-indoctrination-the internalization of attitudes of parents and others

Question 9

What is the focus of logotherapy?

Answer 9

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life and we have freedom to find meaning in what we do and what we experience

Question 10

What is the focus of Glasser’s reality therapy?

Answer 10

Current issues and current problems

Question 11

What is the focus of solution focused therapy?

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Here and now orientation on identifying solutions to problems

Question 12

Focus of Kelly’s personal construct therapy?

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Combines cognitive, behavioral, and humanistic concepts and focuses on the impact of the individual’s perspective on his/her experience of the world

Question 13

Primary goal of gestalt therapy

Answer 13

Awareness

Question 14

Primary goal of rational emotive therapy

Answer 14

Giving up irrational beliefs and ideas

Question 15

Primary goal of psychoanalysis

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Understanding of underlying intrapsychic conflicts

Question 16

Primary goal of client-centered therapy

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Congruence between self and experience

Question 17

Self-in-relation theory suggests:

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One’s self depends on how connects to others.

Self is viewed as progressing from infantile dependence towards a mature state of interdependence

Question 18

What are scales 1,2,3 on MMPI

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Scale 1 - hypochondriasis
Scale 2 - depression
Scale 3 - hysteria

Question 19

A defensive pattern on the MMPI is obtained when:

Answer 19

The F scale score is significantly lower than scores on the L and K scales

Question 20

A psychotic V profile is indicated on the MMPI when

Answer 20

Scale 7 is lower than than scores on scales 6 and 8

Question 21

A passive aggressive profile is indicated when

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Scale 5 is lower than 4 and 6

Question 22

A conversion V profile is indicated when

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Scale 2 is lower than 1 and 3

Question 23

What is a “folie a deux”?

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Shared psychotic disorder. An individual has developed a delusional system as a consequence of a close relationship with another person, the “primary case”, who already has an established delusion.

Question 24

Multi-systemic therapy

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Goal-oriented approach with intensive family and community-based tx that addresses the multiple determinants and factors in each youths social network that are contributing to his or her antisocial behavior. Home based care. Approx. 4 months.

Question 25

Naikan Therapy

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Psychology of reflection - based in clients asking themselves three questions: what have I received from? What have I given to? What troubles or difficulties have I caused to?
-increases awareness of the role you play in the relationship or situation, the amount of support received and an appreciation for others

Question 26

Morita therapy

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Called psychology of action
Emphasis on learning to accept the internal fluctuations of thoughts and feelings and ground behavior in reality and the purpose of movement. Focus on what is and is not controllable. Emotions are valid, pain is inevitable, and there is no attempt to control feelings

Question 27

Success identify and failure identity are associated with what therapy?

Answer 27

Glasser’s reality therapy
- if able to fulfill needs for survival, power, belonging, freedom, and fun without harming self or other then one will develop a success identity

Question 28

Personality disorders with high genetic component

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Antisocial
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal

Question 29

Wolfgang Kohler is associated with

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Insight learning or “a-ha experience” - a sudden novel solution to the problem. Insight learning cannot be explained by traditional heaviest theories if learning based on reinforcement and associations between stimuli.
Chimpanzee and two stick study

Question 30

Rationalist cognitive therapy vs constructivist cognitive therapy

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Rationalist - irrationality is primary source of neurotic pathology

Constructivist - based in more complex and abstract assumptions in which unconscious, developmental, and interaction all processes are emphasized

Question 31

What is introspection according to Gestalt therapy

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Involves absorbing the values or behaviors of others, including the larger society, without really understanding it assimilating those values or behaviors. The person does or believes things that are not reflective of self.

Question 32

According to Berry, marginalization is characterized by

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A member of a minority group that does not identify strongly with either minority or mainstream culture