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• People in individualistic cultures often view mental disorders as a problem originating in a person's mind. In contrast, people in a collectivist culture are more likely to see mental disorders as symptoms of a disconnect between the person and _________

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The family or community

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• Identify three ways in which the relationship with a trained therapist would differ from that of a friendship

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o A therapist is trained in techniques o Will not bring their needs in the relationship o Will maintain confidentiality

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• Which type of therapist would be most likely to treat depression by searching for a cause in the unconscious mind?

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o A psychodynamic therapist

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• In what respect are all therapies alike?

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o All involve the aim of altering the mind, behavior or social relationships

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• On what form of behavioral learning is the behavioral technique of counterconditioning based?

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o Classic conditioning

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• You could use contingency management to change the behavior of a child who comes home late for dinner by

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o Refusing to let the child have dinner when he comes home late

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• What is the primary goal of psychoanalytic therapy? That is, what makes psychoanalytic therapy different from behavioral therapy or the cognitive therapies?

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o Psychoanalysis seeks to reveal and resolve problems in the patient's unconscious, particularly repressed traumatic memories, unfulfilled desires, and unconscious conflicts

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• Carl Rogers invented a technique to help people see their own thinking more clearly. Using this technique the therapist paraphrases the client's statements. Rogers called this_______

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o Reflection of feeling

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• Which form of therapy directly confronts a clients self-defeating and irrational thought process?

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o Rational-enotive behavior therapy

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• Eysenck caused a furor with his claim that people who receive psychotherapy _________

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o Improve no more often than people who receive no therapy at all.

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• A phobia would be best treated by _______, while a problem of choosing a major would be better suited for_________

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o Behavioral therapy/insight therapy

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• Which type of drug would you prescribe for a patient diagnosed with ADHD?

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o A stimulant

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• Which class of drugs blocks dopamine receptors in the brain? Which type magnifies the effects of serotonin?

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o Antipsychotic drugs block dopamine receptors / anitdepressants amplify serotonin

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• Name 3 types of medical therapies for mental disorders, including one that has been largely abandoned as ineffective and dangerous

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o Electroconvulsive therapy, drug therapy, and prefrontal lobotomy

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• The community health movement followed a deliberate plan of ______ for mental patients

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o Deinstitutionalization

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• ________,_________, and _________ all are medical techniques for treating mental disorders by directly altering the function of the brain

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o drug therapies, psychosurgery, ECT

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• biomedical therapy

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o treatment that focuses on altering the brain, especially with drugs, psychosurgery, or electroconvulsive therapy.

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• Paraprofessional

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o Individual who has received on-the-job training in mental health treatment in lieu of graduate education and full professional certification

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• psychological therapy

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o therapy based on psychological principles often called psychotherapy

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• therapeutic alliance

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o the relationship between the therapist and the client, with both parties working together to help the client deal with mental or behavioral issues

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• therapy

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o a general term for any treatment process in psychology and psychiatry, therapy refers to a variety of psychological and biomedical techniques aimed at dealing with mental disorders or coping with problems of living

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• active listener

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o a person who gives the speaker feedback in such forms as nodding, paraphrasing, maintaining an expression that shows instrest, and asking questions for clarification

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• analysis of transference

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o the Freudian technique of analyzing and interpreting the patient's relationship with the therapist, based on the assumption that this relationship mirrors unresolved conflicts in the patients past.

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• aversion therapy

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o as a classical conditioning procedure, aversive counterconditioning involves presenting the individual with an attractive stimulus paired with unpleasant stimulation to condition a repulsive reaction

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• behavior modification

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o another term for behavior therapy

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• behavior therapy

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o any form of psychotherapy based on the principles of behavioral learning, especially operant conditioning and classical conditioning

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• client - centered therapy

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o a humanistic approach to treatment developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizing an individual's tendency for healthy psychological growth through self-actualization

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• cognitive therapy

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o emphasizes rational thinking as the key to mental disorders

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• cognitive - behavioral therapy

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o a newer form of psychotherapy that combines the techniques of cognitive therapy with those of psychotherapy

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• contingency management

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o an operant conditioning approach to changing behavior by altering the consequences, especially rewards and punishments, of behavior

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exposure therapy

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o a form of desensitization therapy in which the patient directly confronts the anxiety provoking stimulus

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group therapy

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o any form of psychotherapy done with more than one client/patient at a time.

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• humanistic theory

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o focuses on human growth rather than mental disorders

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• insight therapy

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o psychotherapy in which the therapist helps the patient understand his or her problems

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• neo - Freudian psychodynamic therapy

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o therapy for a mental disorder that was developed by psychodynamic therorists who embraced Freud's ideas but disagreed with others

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• participant movement

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o a technique in which the therapist demonstrates and encourages a client to imitate a desired behavior

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• positive psychotherapy (PPT)

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o a relatively new form of cognitive - behavioral therapy that seeks to emphasize growth, health, and happiness

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• psychoanalysis

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o the goal is to release unacknowledged desires, conflicts, urges, and memories from the unconcious

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• rational - emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

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o Albert Ellis' brand of cognitive therapy based on the idea that irrational thoughts and behaviors are the case of mental disorders

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• reflection of feeling

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o Carl Rogers technique of paraphrasing the client's words attempting to capture the emotional tone expressed

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• self - help support groups

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o groups that provide clinical support and an opportunity to share ideas about common problems

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• systematic desensitization

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o a behavioral therapy technique in which anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patient to an anxiety provoking stimulus

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• antianxiety drugs

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o a category of medicines that includes the barbiturates and benzodiazepines, drugs that diminish feelings of anxiety.

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• Antidepressants

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o Medicines that treat depression, usually by their effects on the serotonin and/or the norepinephrine pathways in the brain

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• Anitpsychotics

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o Medicines that diminish psychotic symptoms usually by effects of the dopamine receptors in the brain

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• community mental health movement

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o an effort to deinstitutionalize mental patients and to to provide therapy from outpatient clincs

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• deinstitutionalization

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o the policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals

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• electrocovulsive therapy (ECT)

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o a treatment used primarily for depression and involving the application of an electric current to the head, producing a generalized shock seizure

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• psychosurgery

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o the general term for surgical intervention in the brain to treat psychological disorders

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• stimulants

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o a drug that arouses the central nervous system, speeding up the mental and physical responses.

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• tardive dyskinesia

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o an incurable disorder of motor control, especially involving muscles of the face and head, resulting from long term use of antipsychotic drugs

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• transcranial magnetic stimulation

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o a treatment that involves the magnetic stimulation of specific regions of the brain

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• combination therapy

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o a therapeutic approach that involves both psychological and medical techniques - most often a drug therapy with a behavioral or cognitive-behavioral therapy

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• empirically supported treatment (EST)

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o treatment regimen that has been demonstrated to be effected through research

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