Unit 13 (Modules 70-72)

Question 1

What kind of treatment involves psychological techniques; consisting of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth?

Module 70

Answer 1

psychotherapy

Question 2

What kind of treatment is used to prescribe medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology?

Module 70

Answer 2

biomedical therapy

Question 3

What treatment focuses on an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy?

Module 70

Answer 3

eclectic approach

Question 4

What therapeutic technique was created by Sigmund Freud and is based on the belief that the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams and transferences (and the therapist’s interpretations of them) released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight?

Module 70

Answer 4

psychoanalysis

Question 5

What psychoanalysis technique focuses on the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material is called what?

Module 70

Answer 5

resistance

Question 6

What psychoanalysis technique focuses on the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviores and events in order to promote insight?

Module 70

Answer 6

interpretion

Question 7

What psychoanalysis technique focuses on the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)?

Module 70

Answer 7

transference

Question 8

What therapy derives from the psychoanalytic tradition and views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight?

Module 70

Answer 8

psychodynamic theory

Question 9

What kind of therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses?

Module 70

Answer 9

insight therapies

Question 10

What humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers, focuses on the therapist using techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathetic environment to facilitate clients’ growth (also called person-centered therapy)?

Module 70

Answer 10

client-centered theory

Question 11

What kind of technique focuses on empathetic listneing in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies? (a feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy)

Module 70

Answer 11

active listening

Question 12

What kind of technique requires a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Roger’s believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance?

Module 70

Answer 12

unconditional positive regard

Question 13

What kind of therapy applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors?

Module 71

Answer 13

behavior therapy

Question 14

What kind of behavior therapy procedures use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning?

Module 71

Answer 14

counterconditioning

Question 15

What kind of therapy involves behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imaginary or actual situations) to the things fear and avoid?

Module 71

Answer 15

exposure therapies

Question 16

What type of exposure therapy associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli (commonly used to treat phobias)?

Module 71

Answer 16

systematic desensitization

Question 17

What kind of counterconditioning technique treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears, such as airplace flying, spiders, or public speaking?

Module 71

Answer 17

virtual reality exposure therapy

Question 18

What type of counterconditioning associates an unpleasant stae (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)?

Module 71

Answer 18

aversive conditioning

Question 19

What kind of operant conditioning procedure focuses on people earning a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats?

Module 71

Answer 19

token economy

Question 20

What kind of therapy teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions?

Module 71

Answer 20

cognitive therapy

Question 21

What kind of therapy is a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions?

Module 71

Answer 21

rational-emotive behavior therapy (rebt)

Question 22

What kind of therapy is a popular intergrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior thinking (changing behavior)?

Module 71

Answer 22

cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt)

Question 23

What kind of therapy is conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction?

Module 71

Answer 23

group therapy

Question 24

What kind of therapy treats people in the context of their family system and views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members?

Module 71

Answer 24

family therapy

Question 25

What kind of procedure statistically combines the results of many different research studies?

Module 72

Answer 25

meta-analysis

Question 26

What kind of technique focuses on clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences?

Module 72

Answer 26

evidence-based practice

Question 27

What kind of technique focuses on a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together (instructively to overcome clients problems)?

Module 72

Answer 27

therapeutic alliance