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The main goal of _____ therapy is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly.

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Action

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In behavior therapy, the reduction of the undesired behavior is

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easy to measure, but gaining insights, feelings of control, and self-worth are not easily evaluated.

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Anthony has difficulty playing with other children. He often gets angry and stomps off when things don't go his way. To help him learn to deal with his anger, his parents engage him in a game of Candy Land. They respond the way they would like to see Anthony respond when he loses a turn or is forced to move backward on the board. Anthony's parents are using a behavior modification technique called

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Modeling

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Joy earns a gumball sticker for every chore she completes. She puts the stickers on her gumball chart. When the gumball chart is filled, Joy gets to choose a prize out of the prize box. Joy's parents are using

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A token economy

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Joshua's sister had a bad day at school. As a result, she doesn't want to play with him. Joshua assumes she is angry with him. Joshua is experiencing

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Personalization

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An insight therapy that emphasizes revealing unconscious conflicts, urges, and desires which may be causing mental disorders is

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psychoanalysis.

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______ is a technique in which the patient is encouraged to talk about anything that comes to mind without fear of negative evaluations.

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Free association

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When the therapist becomes a symbol of a parental authority figure from the past, the patient is experiencing

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transference

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_______ therapies are action based rather than insight based.

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Behavior

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Rather than focusing on the behavior itself, _______ therapies focus on the distorted thinking and unrealistic beliefs that lead to maladaptive behavior.

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cognitive

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_______ seem(s) to work better in group settings than psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapies.

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Behavior therapies

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As medical doctors, psychiatrists are almost inevitably biological in perspective and, thus, use biomedical therapies

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in addition to any psychotherapy technique they may favor.

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Unlike psychodynamic and humanistic therapies, behavior therapies are

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action based, rather than insight based.

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Therapies that directly affect the biological functioning of the body and brain are known as

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biomedical therapies.

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Phillipe Pinel is known for

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personally unchaining the inmates at an asylum in Paris.

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Individuals who suffer from severe mental illness along with psychosis are generally not good candidates for ______ treatment.

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psychodynamic

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The first organized effort to do something with mentally ill persons began in

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London

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Distortions of thinking in which a person blows a negative event out of proportion while ignoring relevant positive events is called

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magnification and minimization.

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A therapy style in which the therapist remains relatively neutral is ______ therapy.

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nondirective

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Who questioned whether psychotherapy really works?

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Hans Eysenck

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In ______, no one person is seen as the problem.

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family therapy

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The process in which an undesirable behavior is paired with an aversive stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior is

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aversion therapy.

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A therapy technique in which the therapist restates what the client says rather than interpreting the statements is

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reflection

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The use of drugs to control or relieve the symptoms of psychological disorders is called

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psychopharmacology.

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Using medical methods to treat psychological disorders is a form of

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biomedical therapy.

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Who undertook one of the earliest studies into the question of whether psychotherapy really works?

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Hans Eysenck

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Dr. Phillipe Pinel is known for:

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personally unchaining the inmates at an asylum in Paris

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Using methods such as drugs, surgical procedures, electric shock treatments, and noninvasive stimulation techniques to treat psychological disorders is a form of:

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biomedical therapy

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In person-centered therapy, most of the work is done by:

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the client or patient

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Who founded Gestalt therapy?

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Fritz Perls

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A therapy in which the therapist restates what the client says rather than interpreting the statements is known as:

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reflection

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The word _____ means "a place of safety."

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asylum

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Early treatments such as bloodletting, beatings, ice baths, and induced vomiting were all methods used to:

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cleanse the body of physical impurities so that the person's mind and soul could function more perfectly

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Rather than focusing on unconscious, hidden conflicts, humanistic theorists focus on:

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conscious subjective experiences of emotion and people's sense of self

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According to humanistic therapists, the ideal self and the real self should match as closely as possible. This is achieved through:

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unconditional positive regard

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Which of the following therapists would use leading questions and planned experiences, such as confronting clients about their own statements, in therapy sessions?

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Gestalt therapists

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One of the goals of ______ is to use action-based therapies to change the way clients think from irrational, self-defeating thoughts to more rational, self-helping, positive thoughts.

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cognitive-behavioral therapy

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An estimated ______ of people feel that psychotherapy has helped them.

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75-90 percent

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The method of free association was developed by:

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Josef Breuer

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While treating a child with a fear of swimming, the therapist first approaches the water, then touches the water, then stands in the water waist-deep, and finally floats in the water. The therapist then repeats the steps with the child. THis is an example of:

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participant modeling

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Meredith tells her therapist, Dr. Shepherd, that her mother recently died and she's been experiencing suicidal thoughts. Dr. Shepherd responds by explaining that he can imagine that she must be feeling angry and abandoned. Dr. Shepherd is displaying _____, a key element in person-centered therapy.

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empathy

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Daniel failed a math test. Upon receiving his grade, Daniel believed that he must be bad at math and therefore would fail the class, be unable to get into college, and would have to work in fast food for the rest of his life. Daniel is exhibiting:

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overgeneralization

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______ can be useful to treat disorders such as phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders by pairing a stimulus that normally causes an unwanted response with a neutral one, eventually creating desirable involuntary reactions.

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Classical conditioning

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Electroconvulsive therapy is still used to treat:

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severe depression

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