week 9 Abnormal psychology (Treatment)

Question 1

Treatment:

Attempts to change personality patterns through insight (using free association and interpretation) and the therapist–patient relationship (analysis of transference)

Answer 1

Psychodynamic

Question 1

Treatment:

Intensive therapy, three to five times per week, in which the patient lies on a couch and talks about whatever comes to mind, using free association

Answer 1

Psychoanalysis

Question 2

Treatment:

Moderately intensive therapy, one to three times per week, in which the patient discusses issues that come to mind while sitting face-to-face with the therapist

Answer 2

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Question 3

Treatment:

Attempts to change problematic behaviours and cognitive processes

Answer 3

Cognitive–behavioural

Question 4

Treatment:

Classical conditioning technique in which the therapist induces relaxation and encourages the patient to approach a phobic stimulus gradually in imagination

Answer 4

Systematic desensitisation

Question 5

Treatment

Classical conditioning technique in which the therapist exposes the patient to the feared object in real life, either all at once (flooding) or gradually (graded exposure)

Answer 5

Exposure techniques

Question 6

Treatment:

Therapeutic approach in which the therapist induces change by altering patterns of reinforcement and punishment

Answer 6

Operant techniques

Question 7

Treatment:

Cognitive–social technique in which the therapist models behaviour and encourages the patient to participate in it

Answer 7

Participatory modelling

Question 8

Treatment:

Cognitive–social technique in which the therapist teaches behaviours necessary to accomplish goals, as in social skills or assertiveness training

Answer 8

Skills training

Question 9

Treatment:

Therapeutic approach aimed at altering problematic thought patterns that underlie dysfunctional feelings and behaviour

Answer 9

Cognitive therapy

Question 10

Treatment:

Attempts to restore a sense of genuineness and attunement with inner feelings

Answer 10

Humanistic

Question 11

Treatment:

Focuses on the ‘here and now’ and brings out disavowed feelings

Answer 11

Gestalt

Question 12

Treatment:

Uses empathy and unconditional positive regard to help patients experience themselves as they really are

Answer 12

Client-centred

Question 13

Treatment:

Attempts to change problematic family, couple or relationship patterns, such as communication patterns, boundaries and alliances

Answer 13

Family and couples

Question 14

Treatment:

Attempts to use the group process and group interaction to help people change problematic patterns, either with the help of a therapist or through self-help

Answer 14

Group

Question 15

Treatment:

Attempts to change problematic brain physiology responsible for psychological symptoms

Answer 15

Biological

Question 16

people aged over ___ are the highest consumers of antidepressant drugs

Answer 16

85

Question 17

____________medication is essential in the treatment of schizophrenia, although full recovery is unusual

Answer 17

Antipsychotic

Question 18

Lithium and other mood-stabilising drugs are similarly indispensable for _________

Answer 18

bipolar disorder

Question 19

A major problem associated with biological treatments is the ____ ____ ____ when pharmacotherapy is terminated

Answer 19

high relapse rate

Question 20

_______ ________treatments for anxiety can be highly efficacious for anxiety disorders, particularly simple phobia, social phobia, panic, obsessive–compulsive disorder and PTSD

Answer 20

cognitive–behavioural

Question 21

The psychodynamic approach relies on a number of techniques to bring about therapeutic change. Which of the following is NOT associated with the psychodynamic approach to bringing about change?

Select one:
a. Free association
b. Interpretation
c. Analysis of transference
d. Social skills training

Answer 21

d. Social skills training

Question 22

The basis or foundation of the cognitive-behavioural approach to therapy is:

Select one:
a. the metaphor ‘the mind is like a machine’.
b. the manner of processing between normal and abnormal individuals.
c. that symptoms are maladaptive learned behaviour patterns that can be changed.
d. that learning is primary in life.

Answer 22

c. that symptoms are maladaptive learned behaviour patterns that can be changed.

Question 23

The psychodynamic process in which people take thoughts, feelings, fears, wishes, and conflicts from past relationships, particularly in childhood, and bring them to new relationships, especially with their therapists, is termed

Select one:
a. projection.
b. transference.
c. free association.
d. countertransference.

Answer 23

b. transference.

Question 24

The idea that dysfunctional cognitions underlie psychological disorders is the aim of:

Select one:
a. information processing therapy
b. cognitive therapy
c. belief systems therapy
d. humanistic therapy

Answer 24

b. cognitive therapy

Question 25

The assessment technique used by family therapists that maps a family over three or four generations, is termed a(n):

Select one:
a. family tree.
b. genogram.
c. intergenerational plan.
d. familial hierarchy.

Answer 25

b. genogram

Question 26

what is Benzodiazepines for?

Answer 26

A form of anxiolitics medication which can be used to treat anxiety