Therapy (Unit 15)

Question 1

Believed a therapist should be warm, well-adjusted, empathetic, and supportive:

Answer 1

Carl Rogers

Question 2

Emotional bond between therapist and client is key:

Answer 2

Therapeutic Alliance

Question 3

The first to direct attention the Therapist-client Relationship:

Answer 3

Freud

Question 4

The tendency of the client to relate to the therapist as they relate to other important individuals:

Answer 4

Transference

Question 5

Personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and trauma:

Answer 5

Resilience

Question 6

Recovery without formal treatment:

Answer 6

Spontaneous Remission

Question 7

A variety of techniques from various forms of therapy:

Answer 7

Eclectic

Question 8

Focus on the body treatment and usually employs medicine, under the assumption that problems reflect underlying physicality:

Answer 8

Biomedical Therapies

Question 9

Fibers connecting parts of the brain are severed; cut frontal lobes from the thalamus leaving the patient but emotionally/cognitively cut off:

Answer 9

Psychosurgery such as Lobotomies

Question 10

Was usually done to treat depression or schizophrenia:

Answer 10

Lobotomies

Question 11

Pioneered the lobotomy and won the Nobel Prize in 1949:

Answer 11

Eges Moniz

Question 12

Passing an electric current through to brain of a patient, inducing a seizure:

Answer 12

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Question 13

Usually to treat bipolar and depression:

Answer 13

ECT

Question 14

Uses electromagnets to stimulate the brain; has been successful in relieving depression:

Answer 14

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

Question 15

What are 3 anti-anxiety drugs?

Answer 15

Valium, Xanax, and Ativan

Question 16

What is an anti-manic drug?

Answer 16

Lithium

Question 17

What are 4 anti-depressant drugs?

Answer 17

Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and Lexapro

Question 18

Keeps serotonin from reentering the terminal buttion:

Answer 18

SSRI (most used)

Question 19

Breaks down serotonin so it stays in the synapse longer:

Answer 19

MAOI

Question 20

Closes the terminal buttons:

Answer 20

Tricyclics (Tri-C)

Question 21

What are 3 anti-psychotic/neuroleptic drugs?

Answer 21

Thorazine, Clozapine, Haldol

Question 22

What are some side effects of taking medication?

Answer 22

Shaky movements, migraines, weight gain, kidney damage, suicidal tendencies

Question 23

Involuntary movements of the tongue, jaw, trunk, or extremities in conjunction with the use of antipsychotic medication:

Answer 23

Tardive Dyskinesia

Question 24

What medicine lessens the symptoms of Tardive Dyskinesia?

Answer 24

Risperdal

Question 25

The first talking therapy where one goes to therapies about 2-3 times a week; can be very costly:

Answer 25

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Question 26

1. Probes the past in hopes of unraveling the future
2. Therapist sits behind the client and uses free association
3. Dreams contain latent content (hidden meaning)
4. Process is called “walking through”

Answer 26

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Question 27

1. Therapist treatments are shorter, client is sitting up talking to the therapist, and the cost is less
2. Therapist is more active and likely to point out and interpret relevant associations and help client unconcer unresolved conflicts more directly to gain insight into the problem
3. Believed anxiety can come from the past, not just the childhood
4. Sometimes use word association

Answer 27

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 28

1. Client centered therapy is the work of Carl Rogers
2. Creates an atmosphere of unconditional positive regard
3. Uses nondirective counseling and active listening where the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies

Answer 28

Humanistic Perspective

Question 29

The bringing together of individuals in conflict under conditions where they can understand each other better:

Answer 29

Encounter Groups

Question 30

Treats family as a system and views the individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by other family members:

Answer 30

Family Therapy

Question 31

Bereavement support:

Answer 31

Self-Help Groups

Question 32

Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and out emotional reactions:

Answer 32

Cognitive Therapy

Question 33

1. Confront clients unreasonable expectations
2. Believed people’s problems stem from peoples irrational thinking
3. Helps people with anxiety disorders
4. Rumination: stuck in irrational, bad thought processes

Answer 33

Rational-Emotive Therapy by Albert Ellis

Question 34

1. First step is to identify the client’s automatic thoughts and habitual putdowns and challenge them:

Answer 34

Depression Therapy

Question 35

Learn to eliminate or reduce maladaptive behaviors through learning and personality theories; does not deal with unconscious conflicts:

Answer 35

Behavior Therapy

Question 36

Used for smokers, anorexics, etc:

Answer 36

Behavior Modification

Question 37

Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to things they avoid or fear:

Answer 37

Exposure Therapy

Question 38

Anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears such as flying in a plane or public speaking:

Answer 38

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Question 39

A person is taught to relax and imagine feared objects or situations, gradually moving to the most frightening of images; also called counter-conditioning:

Answer 39

Systematic Desensitization by Joseph Wolpe

Question 40

1. This is commonly used to treat phobias
2. Flood - not desirable due to the use of force
3. Use implosion therapy - patient is guided to visualize what they fear and learn to deal with it using relaxation

Answer 40

Counter-conditioning - Research by Mary Cover Jones

Question 41

Use punishment to teach patients a dislike:

Answer 41

Aversion Therapy

Question 42

This rule says people are not responsible for their actions if they were unable to control their actions at the time of the crime:

Answer 42

Irresistible Impulse Rule

Question 43

This rule states that people are not responsible for their actions if they were unable to recognize the difference between right and wrong at the time of the crime:

Answer 43

M’Naghten Rule