Unit 13

Question 1

What are antidepressant drugs?

Answer 1

Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorder, OCD, and PTSD

Question 2

What are antianxiety drugs?

Answer 2

Drug is used to control anxiety and agitation

Question 3

What are antipsychotic drugs?

Answer 3

Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

Question 4

What is psychopharmacology ?

Answer 4

The study of the effect of drugs on mind and behavior

Question 5

What is behavior therapy?

Answer 5

Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted ones

Question 6

What are insight therapies?

Answer 6

A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a persons awareness of underlying motives and defenses

Question 7

What is client centered therapy?

Answer 7

When a therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth

Question 8

What is active listening?

Answer 8

Where the listener echoes, re-states, and clarifies the other person

Question 9

what is unconditional positive regard?

Answer 9

A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude towards others

Question 10

What is psychotherapy?

Answer 10

Treatment involving an interaction between therapist and patient

Question 11

What is biomedical therapy?

Answer 11

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on a persons physiology

Question 12

What did Freuds psychoanalysis believe?

Answer 12

Patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released Will allow the patient to gain self insight

Question 13

What is resistance?

Answer 13

The blocking from consciousness of anxiety material

Question 14

What is interpretation?

Answer 14

The analysts noting of dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors to promote insight

Question 15

What is transference?

Answer 15

The patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

Question 16

How can we listen actively in our own relationships?

Answer 16

Paraphrase, invite clarification, and reflect feelings

Question 17

What is family therapy?

Answer 17

Therapy that treats the family as a system

Question 18

What is group therapy?

Answer 18

Therapy conducted with groups, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction

Question 19

What is cognitive – behavioral therapy? (CBT)

Answer 19

A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive and behavior therapy

Question 20

What is rational – emotive behavior therapy? (REBT)

Answer 20

Confrontational cognitive therapy that vigorously challenges people self defeating attitudes and assumptions

Question 21

What is cognitive therapy?

Answer 21

Therapy that teaches people new ways of thinking

Question 22

What is a token economy

Answer 22

In operant conditioning procedure where people earn a token for good behavior and can later exchange them for privileges

Question 23

What is aversive conditioning?

Answer 23

A type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

Question 24

What is virtual-reality exposure therapy?

Answer 24

An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears

Question 25

What is systematic desensitization?

Answer 25

A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli

Question 26

What are exposure therapies?

Answer 26

Behavioral techniques that trigger anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

Question 27

What is counter conditioning?

Answer 27

Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to revoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors

Question 28

What is lobotomy?

Answer 28

A procedure that cuts the nerves connecting the frontal lobe’s to the emotion controlling centers of the brain

Question 29

What is psychosurgery?

Answer 29

Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

Question 30

What is Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?

Answer 30

Biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electrical current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Question 31

What is a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTSM)?

Answer 31

The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain

Question 32

What is regression towards the mean?

Answer 32

The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back on their average

Question 33

What is meta-analysis?

Answer 33

The procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

Question 34

What is Evidence-based practice?

Answer 34

A clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient Preferences

Question 35

What is therapeutic alliance?

Answer 35

A bond of trust in a mutual understanding between a therapist and client

Question 36

What is resilience?

Answer 36

The personal strength that helps people cope with stress and recover from adversity

Question 37

What is the eclectic approach?

Answer 37

An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy

Question 38

What is psychodynamic therapy?

Answer 38

Therapy from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences