Clinical Psychology: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Question 1

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is a “________ domain of resources that encompasses _______ systems, modalities, and practices and their ____________ theories and beliefs other than those intrinsic to the dominant health system in a given historical period.

Answer 1

• Broad
• Health
• Accompanying

Question 2

Included in CAM are _________, acupuncture, and _____________.

Answer 2

• Hypnosis
• Reflexology

Question 3

_____________ has been used as an adjunct to more mainstream therapies, and has been found to be effective for treating acute stress disorder, ________ disorders, obesity, _________, and chronic __________.

Answer 3

• Hypnosis
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Pain

Question 4

Recent research based on brain-imaging techniques suggests that hypnosis-induced paralysis may involve a ____________ in communication between brain areas that control ___________ and those that control executive functions and _______-imagery.

Answer 4

• Disruption
• Movement
• Self

Question 5

____________ under hypnosis does not always occur.

Answer 5

Compliance.

Question 6

Orne and Dinges propose that hypnosis involves experiencing alterations of ___________, perception, and mood in response to ___________, and characterize it’s essential feature as a “___________ experiential ____________.”

Answer 6

• Memory
• Suggestion
• Subjective
• Change

Question 7

Hypnosis has been used to help people recover ____________ memories.

Answer 7

Repressed.

Question 8

Hypnosis ________ enhance the accuracy of memories, and may produce more ________________ (inaccurate or confabulated memories) than accurate memories.

Answer 8

• Does not
• Pseudomemories

Question 9

Hypnosis may ____________ a person’s confidence in the validity of uncertain memories, particularly those that are inaccurate.

Answer 9

Exaggerate.

Question 10

Memories recovered under hypnosis (even inaccurate ones) may reflect issues and experiences that are _________ to treatment.

Answer 10

Relevant.

Question 11

Acupuncture has been used in China and other Asian countries for at least __________ years.

Answer 11

3,000.

Question 12

The traditional explanation for the effects of acupuncture is that illness is due to a blockage of qi (_________) and that acupuncture _______ the flow of qi along the ____________ or pathways circulating the body.

Answer 12

• Vital life energy
• Unblocks
• Meridians

Question 13

Research on the benefits of acupuncture suggest it may be due to the release of ____________ and other _______-suppressing substances or to an alteration of _______ flow in areas around the needle or in key regions of the __________.

Answer 13

• Endorphins
• Pain
• Blood
• Brain

Question 14

Acupuncture has proven useful in reducing certain types of ________ (lower back, migraine, dental) and for managing chemotherapy-induced _________ and __________.

Answer 14

• Pain
• Nausea
• Vomiting

Question 15

The use of reflexology is based on the assumptions that “there are reflex areas in the _______ and ______ that correspond to all of the glands, ________, and parts of the body,” and that applying pressure to these areas re-establishes the body’s ________ and promotes the healing process.

Answer 15

• Hands
• Feet
• Organs
• Balance

Question 16

One explanation for the benefits of reflexology is that it restores __________ to affected areas.

Answer 16

Energy flow.

Question 17

Other explanations for the benefits of reflexology are that it affects ______ or _______ circulation, or promotes _________.

Answer 17

• Blood
• Lymph
• Relaxation

Question 18

The effectiveness of reflexology _______ been consistently demonstrated.

Answer 18

Has not.