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Larisa is going to a therapist to gain a better understanding of what makes her do the things she does. This type of therapy is known as _____ therapy.
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insight
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It was ___ who is most credited with the "moral treatment" movement for using kindness and guidance with the mentally ill.
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Philipe Pinel
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The actual content of a dream is the ____ content, according to freud.
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manifest
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A psychoanalyst may rely on the technique of _____ which allows patients to talk about anything that comes to mind.
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free association
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In ____, a person centered therapist must show an honest and open response to the client and not hide behind the professional role of therapist.
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authenticity
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Gestalt therapy differs from person centered therapy because
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it is directed rather than non directive.
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What kind of person would get the least benefit from humanistic therapy?
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one who has a hard time putting things into words in a logic manner
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Meagan was afraid of dogs. she wanted to get over this fear , so she began by thinking about seeing a dog but staying calm. Then she walked past her neighbor's dog in its fenced yard until she no longer felt afraid.... NExt she.... Finally, she bought herself a puppy and was no longer afraid. Meagan's method is most like
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systematic desensitization
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When the exposure to a feared object is rapid and intense rather than slow and gradual, it is called
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flooding
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Cara sat down with her daughter, Morgan and together they wrote a list of things that Morgan was expected to do each day and the rewards she would get if she accomplished them, as well as the penalties she would face if she did not do them. This is most like which technique
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contingency-contracting
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Which therapy style can be compared to a drill sergeant private style of therapeutic relationship
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rational emotional behavior
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Not one of three goals of Cognitive behavioral therapy
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helping the client gain insight
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Stephan sees a text msg from a number he does not know on his girlfriends phone and he assumes he is cheating on him with this unknown person. Beck would say that Stephen has engaged in what type of distorted thinking
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overgeneralization
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Disadvantage of group therapy
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Clients share therapist time
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When Carson began acting out , her parents took her to a therapist who suggested her parents may have been caused the problem by using the wrong discipline.The kind of therapy that might best help Carson would probably be _____
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family therapy
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Which is not one of the problems in studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy?
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All therapies take the same amount of time to be effective
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Cindy is a White,upper-middle-class graduate student in a clinical psychology doing her first internship in juvenile court. Her first client is an angry 15-year-old African AAmerican boy. Which of the following might be barriers to effective therapy in this situation?
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social class, culture values, nonverbal communication
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When a person on antipsychotic drug develops repetitive, involuntary jerks and movements of the face ,lips, legs, and body, this called
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tardive dyskinesia
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The use of anti anxiety drugs to treat anxiety disorders is gradually being phased out in favor of treatment with ____drugs
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antidepressant
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Which neurotransmitter is not one of the three that seems to be involved in depression and the drugs that treat depression?
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epinephrine
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Before the use of electricity, seizures were included in psychotic patients by means of
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camphor
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In bilateral anterior cingulotomy
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a thin wire electrode is used to destroy a small area of the brain tissue
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Virtual reality (VR) techniques have been useful in the treatment of which of the following disorders?
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phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder
