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Gestalt therapy frequently uses which of the following techniques?

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Empty Chair

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Associating objects that elicit an undesirable response with unpleasant or negative stimuli describes the key principle of?

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Aversive Conditioning

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The development of which class of drugs revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia?

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Phenothiazines

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The first class of antipsychotics were the?

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Phenothiazines

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Iqbal and his therapist have fallen into treating each other in a father-son manner. The therapist has started to reach to Iqbal as if Iqbal was his son, while Iqbal plays out hit troubled relationship with his own father with the therapist. In this case, Iqbal is experiencing ______, while the therapist is experiencing ______.

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Transference; countertransference

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In research reported in you text, an analysis of 400 controlled studies evaluating the effectiveness of psychotherapy found that the average person receiving therapy did better than approximately what percentage of people placed on waiting lists for therapy?

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80%

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In finding mental health help, the text recommends all but which of the following?

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selecting a therapist form local advertisements

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Juan suffers from alcoholism and has not responded to other types of treatment. Juans therapist suggest aversive condition ing which Juan will take a nausea inducing drug at the sam time he sniffs beer. In this treatment strategy, the beer is the _______ during conditioning and the _______ after conditioning?

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Neutral stimulus; conditioned stimulus

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Regarding the use of antidepressants, which of the following statements is false?

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Compared to tricyclics, SSRIs have more serve side effects

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_______ describes the social policy of redirecting the care of people with serve mental disorders form state mental hospitals toward community- based treatment settings?

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Deinstitutionalization

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Which of the following correctly describes the effect of deinstitutionalization?

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Deinstitutionalization has been mix of success and faille as many people have been helped but far too many have not.

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Regarding traditional psychoanalysis, which of the following statement is false?

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Freud's techniques of free association, dream analysis, and interpretation are designed to help clients repress negative aspects of their personalities

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________ is an empirically supported treatment for enuresis (bed-wetting)

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Behavior therapy

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According to Ellis, negative emotions are?

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The result of irrational beliefs about life events

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Regarding prefrontal lobotomy, which of the following statements is false?

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This technique was one used to treat extreme passivity or extreme aggressiveness.

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Eclectic therapists?

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Integrate approaches from may different schools of therapy

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Lakeisha has a snake phobia and decides to see a behavioral therapist. Her therapist suggest systematic desensitization. What is the second step Lakeisha will take in her therapy?

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Developing a fear hierarchy for snacks

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Vanessa eels an attachment toward her therapist and the therapy process. Vanessa's experience is referred to as?

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The therapeutic alliance

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Which of the following is NOT a key idea form client- centered therapy?

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Conflicting parts of the client's personality should be integrated into a function whole.

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In finding mental health help, the text recommends all but which of the following?

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looking for an online therapist

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Shannon goes to a cognitive therapist that gives her the following assignment, Next time you have a negative thought, investigate it to determine if its is valid. Based on this description, which therapeutic technique is Shannon's therapist using?

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Reality testing

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Regarding clinical psychologists, which of the following statement is true?

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Clinical psychologist have passed licensing exam

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Jewel takes na anti anxiety drug for the treatment of her panic disorder. She experiences a common side effect from her treatment.. Which side effect is Jewel most likely to experience?

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Drowsiness

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Which of the statements about locating. qualified mental health professional is untrue?

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A client should not inquire about the specific therapeutic methods that will be used because this will spoil their effects

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All but which of the following are reasons given in the text as to why racial and ethnic minorities have less access to mental health care than the majority group?

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They are more likely to suffer form disorders that fall outside the range of available treatments.

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Leanring desirable behavior by watching and imitating others is known as ____, and ____ pioneered the use of this technique to help people overcome phobias?

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Modeling; Albert Bandura

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Regarding behavioral therapy, which of the following statements is False?

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Aversive conditioning uses principles of operant conditioning to help people extinguish undesirable behaviors

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What is a primary disadvantage of the anti anxiety drug Valium?

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It can lead to psychological and physiological dependence, and it can be deadly when mixed with alcohol

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Regarding the use of psychotic drugs, which of the following statement is false?

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Antidepressant drugs bring complete symptom relief in most patients who take them.

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Phenothiazines would be used to treat which of the following people?

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Tobey, who has schizophrenia

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Which of the following is NOT a key idea from psychodynamic therapies?

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Therapy will help people develop their unique potentials

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Regarding the effectiveness of psychotherapy, which of the following statements if false?

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The greatest improvements in therapy are typically gained during the last few months of treatment

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Electroconvulsive shock therapy is effective in treating?

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Severe depression

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Antidepressants have therapeutic effects in treating all of the following except?

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Schizophrenia

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According to a psychoanalyst, anxiety results from?

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Unacceptable impulses that threaten to leak into consciousness

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All but which of the following are advantages of group therapy over individual therapy?

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Clients feel safer expressing their feelings in a group setting

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Majorie receives treatment for depression. In her treatment, Majorie receives jolts of electricity though her head. What is Majorie's treatment?

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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Critics of deinstitutionalization complain that contemporary public mental hospitals are like?

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Revolving doors, repeatedly admitting patients and rapidly discharging them.

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Dr. Stevenson just began a to treating Hispanic Americans in rural clinic. An important cultural consideration for Stevenson to consider is the tendency for Hispanic Americans to?

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Place a strong emphasis on family interdependency

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The Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls was most disillusioned with which aspect of psychoanalysis?

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Lack of emphasis on the client's subjective experience in the present.

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Which of the following best describes the effectiveness deinstitutionalization?

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A mix of success and failure

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General term for any psychologically based form of treatment to help people better understand their problems is?

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Psychotherapy

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Tricyclic antidepressants raise brain levels of neurotransmitters by?

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Interfering with reuptake process

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Psychoanalyst are typically which type of mental health professional?

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Psychiatrists or psychologists

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Common side effects of antidepressants are?

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Sexual dysfunction and dry mouth

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All but which of the following had limited the effectiveness of deinstitutionalization?

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Court decision that reversed the policy of deinstitutionalization

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Regarding electroconvulsive therapy, which of the following statement is false?

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For those who receive ECT, memories of events during the weeks or months preceding and following the experience are very strong

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All but which of the following describes the praise of psychotherapy?

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Is limited to the treatment of individuals

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after Raymond described his dream to his therapist, efforts were made to figure out what the dream meant, or its?

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Laten content

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Victor Van Dusen takes an antidepressant to cope with his depressive disorder. On which neurotransmitters is his antidepressant likely to work?

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Serotonin and norepinephrine

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In behavioral therapy, another term for gradual exposure is?

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In vivo exposure

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Humanistic therapist emphasize all but which of the following?

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Irrational beliefs

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Which of the following statements about the value of online therapy services today is untrue?

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Few psychologist believe that online therapy has any potential value.

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Carl Rogers is to _____ Therapy as Fritz Perls is to ____ therapy?

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Client-centered; Gestalt

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Which of the following is not a feat of systematic desensitization?

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Observing non fearful subject interact with fearful stimuli

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Roge has been convicted of sexually assaulting several young children. In prison he undergoes aversion therapy. He is presented with pictures of hyun children while receiving unpleasant electric shocks. Eventually, pictures of young children become aversive stimuli. In this procedure, the elect shocks are described as?

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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Most of the antipsychotic drug target which neurotransmitter?

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Dopamine

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Meta- analyses of the effectiveness of psychotherapy suggest?

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There is little difference in the effectiveness of the different forms of therapy.

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Regarding behavior therapy, which of the following is true?

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It is relatively brief, typically lasting only weeks or months

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For which of her clients is behavior therapist Dr. Williamson most likely to choose virtual therapy?

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Ricky has a ear of flying in airplanes

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IN clients centered therapy, the therapist demonstrates empathy when?

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accurately mirrors the clients experience and feelings

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Regarding cognitive therapies, which of the following statements is false?

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Cognitive therapist believe that emotional problems are cured by believe event and life expertness

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The majority of community based mental health centers today would best be described as?

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understaffed and underfunded

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According to your text, all but which of the following are problems with using psychiatric drugs to treat psychological disorders?

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In the long run, psychiatric drugs are more expense than psychotherapy

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Which type of therapy focuses on helping families focus on changing disruptive patterns of communication and improve the was in which member relate to each other?

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Family Therapy

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Behavior therapy focuses on?

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Changing maladaptive patterns of responding

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Generalizing form research evidence some forms of psychodynamic therapy are predicated to produce good results in treating which of the following?

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Bulimia

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Dr. Gomez is a Gestalt therapist. What would you expect to be the emphasis of this therapy sessions with clients?

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Integrating inner feelings into ones conscious experience

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Wanda's therapy incomes directly confronting fearful stimuli, little by little until her fear of the stimulus is reduced or eliminated. Based on this description, which technique is Wanda's therapist utilizing?

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Gradual exposure

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Minor tranquilizer drugs are called?

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Anti anxiety drug

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According to Carl Rogers, what are three important component of therapy?

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Empathy, genuineness and unconditional positive regard

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Which approach to therapy combines techniques like gradual exposure and modeling with efforts to changing and correct fault thinking pattens?

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Cognitive Behavioral

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In a study reported in the text, which orientation was most often reported by a group of clinical counseling?

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Eclectic

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The first form of psychodynamic therapy to be developed was?

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Psychoanalysis

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Dr. Lau is a couple therapist. What is the most typical problem she is likely to target in treatment?

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Communication difficulties

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Gail suffers from bipolar disorder. Which drug is Gail's doctor likely to prescribe to help stabilize her mood swings?

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Lithium

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In psychoanalysis, _____ desires blocking that occurs hone the therapy Rouches upon anxiety evoking thought or feelings?

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Resistance

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Of the following patients reciting treatment for depression who is most likely to be candidate for electroconvulsive therapy?

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Damien, who had a serve case of depression that ha not responded to other forms of treatment.

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Behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapies have demonstrated impressive realist in treating all of the following except?

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Bipolar disorder

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All but which of the following describes the functions of the community based mental health centers?

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Supervised residential facilities

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Psychotropic drugs are also known as ___ drugs?

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Psychiatric

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Which type of antidepressant has the lowest rate of sever size effects?

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SSRIs

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Anticonvulsant drugs used to treat epilepsy have also proves useful in the treatment of?

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Bipolar disorder

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Psychosurgery is sometimes used today to treat sever uses of?

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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During which decade did the community health system begin to take shape in the United States?

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1960

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As discussed in the text, a poplar term often used to refer to psychotherapy is?

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Talk therapy

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Regarding psychotropic drugs, which of the following statements is false?

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There are four major grouping of psychotropic drugs- anti anxiety, antidepressant, antipsychotic and antisomatic

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Which of the following best desires the hope of the community based care movement?

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The mental patients could be reintegrated not society instead of being hospitalized for the long term

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All but which of the following mental health professionals are psychotherapist?

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Vermon, who administers electro therapy to people experiencing sever depression

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The idea that irrational beliefs lead to emotional distress is at the core of which approach to therapy?

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Rational emotive behoove therapy

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During a visit to his therapist, Ishamel was asked to begin talking about whatever was on his mind even if it seems trivial or irrelevant. This example describes?

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Free association

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Brooke goes to a Gestalt therapist. In her therapy,Brooke will probably be encourage to?

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Focus on how she is feeling in the here and now

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In psychoanalysis transference is when?

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The client beings acting toward the therapist in wats that mirror the clients conflict ridden relationship with others

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Puge has just graduated from college as a clinical social worker. Which degree has Puge earned?

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M.S.W.

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According to Freud the most important use of interpretation in psychonalysis is?

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analysis of the transference relationship

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Rachels psychoanalyst asked her to talk about what she had dreamed about the previous night. In this case Rachel is being asked about?

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Manifest content

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All but which of the following describes the precise of psychotherapy?

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Involves the use of psychiatric drugs when needed

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All but which of the following people are demonstration an irrational belief, according to Ellis?

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Eduardo believes that life problems don't typically have clear and quick solutions

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In the evaluation of different types of therapies, common characteristic of all types o therapy under study are referred to as?

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Nonspecific factors

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In client centered therapy, unconditional positive regard is?

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The therapist complet acceptance of the client.

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All but which of the following are examples of operant conditioning in behavioral therapy?

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Dr. Dorian uses a nausea inducing drug with his client Eduardo, who suffers form alcoholism

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Callie is participating in a behavioral therapy method in which her therapist first teaches her relaxation techniques Based on this description, what is most likely to be Callie's therapy of choice?

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Systematic desensitization

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Cognitive therapist such as Aaron Beck refer to errors in thinking as?

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Cognitive Distortions

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Which of the following does NOT belong?

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Prozac

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Computer technology has been used for new form of exposure therapy called?

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Virtual reality therapy

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Regarding filet centered therapy, which of the following DOES NOT belong?

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Confrontation

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Therapies that are judge to have demonstrated effectiveness ins scientifically based studies are called?

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Empirically supported treatments

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In Freudian terms, the goal of psychoanalysis to shine to the light of _____ on the unconscious recesses of the ____

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ego;id

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In psychoanalysis, Hannah seems to hesitate when talking about her relationship with her father. Hannahs hesitation may describe?

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Resistance

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Which of the following does not belong?

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empty chair technique

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During her clinical, psychology grate Veronica Wiza will conduct therapy session with African Americans clients. An important consideration for Wiza to consider when treating African Americans is their?

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History as a people o racial discrimination and oppression

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Hugo has major depression. He might be treated with any of the following except?

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Xanax

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Dr. Melif is a psychodynamic therapist. Therefore we can predict she believe that resorting psychological health involves?

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ganning insight into unconscious psychological conflicts

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Which of the following describes the primary purpose of the modern mental hospital?

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To priced protection lining environment for long term patients

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Which type of drug typically acts on the neurotransmitter GABA?

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Anti anxiety

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Major tranquilizer is to ___ as minor is to____

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antipsychotic; anti anxiety

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Arron is to___ therapy as Albert is to ___ therapy?

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Cognitive; rational emotive behavior

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Tyler takes Ritalin to treat his ADHD?

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Dopamine

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Which drug can proudly mild impairments in memory?

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Lithium

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