PreTest Psychiatry: Psychotherapies

Question 1

What are the three steps of desensitization training?

Answer 1

1) . Train the patient to do relaxation techniques
2) . Have the patient make a hierarchical list of increasingly stressful situations.
3) . Make the patient think through the situations.
4) . Have the patient be exposed to the real situations.

Question 2

What two traits make a person a good candidate for psychoanalytic therapy?

Answer 2

• Insight into their illness

* High tolerance for frustration (because psychoanalysis involves confronting the patient’s behavior and thoughts)

Question 3

Caring for those with factitious disorder is difficult. It’s recommended that health care providers do what to best care for those with factitious disorder?

Answer 3

Have regular interdisciplinary meetings to control splitting

Question 4

Group therapy can often reduce the shame associated with a disorder in a process called ______________.

Answer 4

universalization (realizing one is not the only person with that problem)

Question 5

Creating a coping plan for difficult times and emphasizing the fact that the therapist is a nurturer are parts of which kind of therapy?

Answer 5

Supportive psychotherapy

Question 6

Interpreting the patient’s life and gently confronting them about aspects of it are aspects of ______________.

Answer 6

psychodynamic psychotherapy

Question 7

Commonly, psychotherapists tell families of those with schizophrenia to _______________.

Answer 7

not express emotions fully (to “reduce the emotional quotient” of interactions) –this has been shown to decrease the rate of relapse