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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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___ involves cutting into the brain to remove or destroy brain tissue for the purpose of relieving symptoms of mental disorders
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Psychosurgery
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Therapies that directly affect the biological functioning of body and brain are known as
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biomedical therapies
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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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Anthony 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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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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Virtual reality can be used to expose patients to ___ objects and situations
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phobic
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A warm and caring relationship between client and therapist, characterized by empathy and understanding, is called
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the therapeutic alliance
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Who undertook one of the earliest studies into the questions of 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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___ group therapy can be effective for social anxiety disorder.
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Cognitive- behavioral
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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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Dr. Phillipe Pinel is known for
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Personally unchaining the inmates at an asylum in Pairs
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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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individuals who are extremely withdrawn or who suffer from psychotic symptoms are generally not good candidates for ___ treatment
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Psychodynamic
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A therapy technique 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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A therapy style in which the therapist acts primarily as a sounding board is called___ therapy
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nondirective
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An insight therapy that emphasizes revealing unconscious conflicts urges and desires that maybe causing mental disorders is called
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psychoanalysis
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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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who founded Gestalt therapy
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Fritz Perls
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The first efforts to treat the mentally ill with kindness and guidance are known as
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moral treatment
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The word___ means "a place of safety".
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asylum
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___ seems to work better in group settings than psychoanalysis and cognitive- behavioral therapies.
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Behavior therapies
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One of the criticisms of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapies is that
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they treat the symptom, not the cause.
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Which of the following is an advantage of group therapy?
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provides support from people who have similar or nearly identical problems
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What problem can occur when the cultural or ethnic backgrounds of therapist and client are mismatched?
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The therapist may project his or her values onto the client, thus failing to achieve true empathy with the clients feelings
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___ drugs are used to treat symptoms such as delusions hallucinations and other bizarre behavior.
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antipsychotic
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electroconvulsive therapy is still used to treat
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severe depression
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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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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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In the Middle Ages, Mental illness was thought to be caused by
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demonic possession
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although psychologists have discovered both drug treatments and psychological treatments that are effective in treating anxiety disorders drug treatments
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are not as enduring in their effects as psychological treatments
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Which of the following types of therapy were introduced during the 1960s and 1970s
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cognitive and behavioral therapies
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In the mid- twentieth century treatments such as___ and ___ were used to treat severe, persistent mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression
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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); lobotomies
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In the 1950s scientists discovered___ and over time due to the effectiveness of this treatment, many institutionalized patients were released and treated on an outpatient basis
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anti-psychotic drugs
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Pam has a dream that she's in the grocery store and can't find her children. Her therapist uses this actual dream imagery, or ______ to learn about issues that might be important to Pam. He will first have to take this actual dream scenario and interpret it for its
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mainfest content
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She has the worst case of agoraphobia I've ever seen, a peer counselor is stopping by everyday to work with her. Iit took a week to get her out the front door, and more than
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behavioral
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When she started relating to me in the way she related to her mother it become clear that she perceived her mother as a rival for her fathers affection
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psychodynamic
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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 thought s
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cognitive behavioral
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