Psychotherapy and Psychological Disorders

Question 1

What are the 3 main categories of therapy?

Answer 1

Insight therapies
Behavior therapies
Biomedical therapies

Question 2

________________ is…
Short term
Surface level issues
Here and now
Conscious
Moderate client revelations
Focused issues

Answer 2

Counselling

Question 3

__________________ is…
Long term
Deep seated issues
There and then
Unconscious
Deep client revelations
life stories

Answer 3

Psychotherapy

Question 4

_____________________ and ___________________ “specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems.”

Answer 4

Clinical psychologists and counseling psychologists

Question 5

____________________ “are physicians who specialize in the treatment of psychological disorders.”

Answer 5

Psychiatrists

Question 6

_______________________ work as part of a treatment “team” with a psychologists or psychiatrist

Answer 6

Psychiatric social workers

Question 7

______________________ earn a bachelor’s or master’s degree and usually work with hospitalized patients.

Answer 7

Psychiatric nurses

Question 8

___________________ is the open and flexible movement through time; being open to all that emerges from “being with”; an openness to the unfolding of possibilities

Answer 8

Presence

Question 9

_______________________ for those working in helping fields is the ability to be attentive to their needs and concerns

Answer 9

Psychological Presence

Question 10

One of the largest challenges of _________________ is holding space for a person to feel safely overwhelmed by events and situations - where a person is unconditionally accepted and understood by a caring companion

Answer 10

Psychological Presence

Question 11

____________________ is how we take someone’s essence into our own reality

Answer 11

Attunement

Question 12

__________________ is coupling of two autonomous entities into a functional whole…. Two literally become linked as one

Answer 12

Resonance

Question 13

_____________________ “involve verbal interactions intended to enhance clients’ self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior

Answer 13

Insight therapies

Question 14

Insight therapies include _____________, _______________, and ______________________

Answer 14

Psychoanalysis
Client-centered therapy
Group therapy

Question 15

Psychoanalysis was developed by ___________________

Answer 15

Sigmund Freud

Question 16

_____________________________ emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association, dream analysis and transference

Answer 16

Psychoanalysis

Question 17

______________________ “occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives.”

Answer 17

Transference

Question 18

Newer versions of the therapy are used and are referred to as ___________________________.

Answer 18

Psychodynamic approaches

Question 19

_________________________ “is an insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients, who play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy.”

Answer 19

Client-centered therapy

Question 20

Client-centered therapy is rooted in the humanistic perspective and the work of ____________________.

Answer 20

Carl Rogers

Question 21

Carl Rogers believed 3 core conditions were necessary to promote positive changes in therapy, what are they?

Answer 21

Genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathy.

Question 22

With the ________________________ approach, the client and therapist work together almost as equals

Answer 22

Therapeutic process

Question 23

The therapist’s key task with Therapeutic process is __________________

Answer 23

Clarification

Question 24

___________________ is in which researchers often find the most support for the therapeutic approach they use.

Answer 24

Allegiance effect

Question 25

_______________________ “involve the application of the principles of learning to direct efforts to change clients’ maladaptive behaviors.”

Answer 25

Behavior therapies

Question 26

What are the two assumptions of behaviour therapy?

Answer 26

Behavior is a product of learning.
What has been learned can be unlearned.

Question 27

__________________________ “is a behavior therapy used to reduce clients’ anxiety responses through counterconditioning.

Answer 27

Systematic desensitization

Question 28

_____________________________ blend verbal and behavioral interventions

Answer 28

Cognitive-behavioral treatments

Question 29

_________________________ is a treatment that “uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders.”

Answer 29

Cognitive therapy

Question 30

Cognitive therapy emerged from the work of ____________________ and ____________________.

Answer 30

Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck

Question 31

_________________________ “are physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders.”

Answer 31

Biomedical therapies

Question 32

Two prominent biomedical therapies are:

Answer 32

Drug therapy
Electroconvulsive (ECT)

Question 33

_____________________________________“is the treatment of mental disorders with medication.”

Answer 33

Psychopharmacotherapy (or drug therapy)

Question 34

________________________ “borrow ideas, insights, and techniques from a variety of sources while tailoring their intervention strategy to the unique needs of each client.”

Answer 34

Eclectic therapists

Question 35

Eclectic approaches are particularly common when a _____________________________ provides therapy.

Answer 35

Treatment team

Question 36

What are the 3 barriers of multicultural sensitivity?

Answer 36

Cultural barriers, language barriers, and institutional barriers

Question 37

The American Psychological Association (APA) uses the ____________________________________.

Answer 37

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

Question 38

___________________________ “are a class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.”

Answer 38

Anxiety disorders

Question 39

_______________________________ “is marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat.”

Answer 39

Generalized anxiety disorder

Question 40

______________________________________ “is marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object of situation that presents no realistic danger.”

Answer 40

Phobic disorder

Question 41

___________________________ “is characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly” (see following animation sequence).

Answer 41

Panic disorder

Question 42

___________________________________ “is a fear of going out to public places.”

Answer 42

Agoraphobia

Question 43

______________________________________ is one in which people “show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure.”

Answer 43

Major depressive disorder

Question 44

_______________________________________________ “is marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.”

Answer 44

Bipolar disorder