Chapter 16: Treatment – Flashcards
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Dr. Martinez, a psychodynamic therapist, was quite pleased when her patient improved, and she felt the patient was making excellent progress. In fact, the patient himself stated how great he was feeling although he still had difficulty realizing what the "main conflict" was. The lack of ability for the patient to have insight despite feeling great is an example of which of the six principles of scientific thinking?
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NOT D. Extraordinary Claims
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In humanistic therapies, some clients may first improve and then develop a stronger emotional bond with the therapist as a result of the therapy, while others may first develop a bond with the therapist and then improve. This demonstrates which of the six principles of scientific thinking?
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NOT b. Falsifiability
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According to the authors, the claims of Alcoholics Anonymous' success
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a. is not supported by the available data
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According to Albert Ellis, our vulnerability to psychological disturbance is a product of the __________ of our irrational beliefs.
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c. frequency and strength
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An important consideration before undergoing psychosurgery is that
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a. the costs may be greater than the actual benefits received.
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Carmelo is giving a report to his graduate seminar on research on the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapies. Which point would you be most likely to hear him make if you were in that seminar?
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NOT a. Active confrontation of irrational thinking and the display of empathy are two important psychodynamic therapeutic techniques.
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By the 1950s, as many as __________ patients received psychosurgery.
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b. 50,000
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His work influenced the contemporary work of interpersonal therapy (IPT).
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NOT a. Jung
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________ allows psychotherapists to place persons in situations to confront and eliminate their fears that would either be infeasible or difficult to do in real life.
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d. Virtual reality exposure therapy
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People who have gone through therapy often recall their pretherapy adjustment as much worse than it actually was. This often leads them to ________ how much improvement resulted from their psychotherapy experience.
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b. overestimate
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According to this neo-Freudian, the goal of psychotherapy was individuation.
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NOT c. Sullivan
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________ cognitive therapy played an instrumental role in creating the field of cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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a. Beck's
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Antidepressant prescriptions have _______ from 1988-1994 through 2005-2008.
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NOT b. tripled
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been marketed widely as a breakthrough treatment for ________________.
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c. anxiety disorders
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A key component of Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy is the psychotherapist's
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a. active disputing and challenging of the client's assumptions
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In what brand of psychotherapy would a clinical psychologist attempt to uncover the underlying unconscious conflicts and impulses that are the cause of one's psychological difficulties?
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d. Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic
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After learning how to relax, Herman begins his systematic desensitization treatment for his claustrophobia by
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NOT deconstructing an anxiety hierarchy
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Which of the following is NOT one of the components of Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)?
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a. empathetic response
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Dismantling allows researchers to examine the effectiveness of isolated components of a broader treatment such as systematic desensitization and compare these effects with that of the full treatment package. Dismantling represents which of the six principles of scientific thinking?
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d. Ruling out rival hypotheses
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The ________ model of treatment for alcoholism assumes that people who are on the road to recovery will occasionally "slip." This treatment attempts to teach people not to feel ashamed, guilty, or discouraged when these slips occur.
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d. relapse prevention
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Systematic desensitization was developed by ________.
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a. Wolpe
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A frequently prescribed medication for managing one's attention problems is
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c. Ritalin
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Kennedy meets with a therapist who is trying to merge her "quiet expert" with her "risk taker" so that she'll become a complete "risky expert." This would be an example of
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c. Perls' Gestalt therapy
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Alcoholics Anonymous is the largest organization for treating alcoholics and was founded in
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b. 1935
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In _________________, the client engages in role-playing with a therapist to learn and practice new skills.
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b. behavioral rehearsal
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A concern with the many 12-step approaches that are based on the as Alcoholics Anonymous model in dealing with various problems with living is that
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c. no research evidence exists for the effectiveness of these approaches.
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Research on the effectiveness of the different methods of psychotherapy suggests that
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b. behavioral, psychodynamic, and person-centered approaches are more helpful for patients than receiving no treatment.
