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Psycho therapy can be used to be described as

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the use of psychological technique to treat understanding and emotional behavior and interpersonal problems.

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currently licensed physician , psychiatrist and specially trained psychologist in new Mexico, the military, and Louisiana

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can legally prescribe bio medical therapies and electrocompolsive therapies.

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The primary goal of psycho analysis is

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is to bring unconscious conflict to conscious awareness to help the person gain insight into conflict and resolve it.

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Client- centered therapy was developed by who

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Karl Rogers

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In client centered therapy

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The therapist usually strives to be non directive genuine and accepting.

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In the 1920's famous case of little Albert that case demonstrated that

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Unhealthy emotional responses such as irrational fears can be a result of classical conditioning.

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In Beck's cognitive therapy

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the therapist strives to create a therapeutic climate of collaboration

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The advantage of group therapy is

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The therapist can observe how a client interacts with others.

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The basic premise of family therapy is

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the family is the dynamic interdependence system in which each member plays a distinct role

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The technique called Meta-analysis involve

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Statistically combining results of several studies investigating the same issue

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The difference between normal and abnormal is

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often the matter of degree

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The acronym DSM-IV-TR stands for

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition - Text Revision

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According to National Comorbidity study (NCS)

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women have a higher prevalence of major depression and men have a higher prevalence of substance abuse.

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The major symptom of a disorder called a Panic disorder

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is frequent, unpredictable;and unexpected panic attacks.

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Sallie has been diagnosed suffering from social phobia

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she is likely to suffer from a paralyzing fear of preforming a routine behaviors and public situations or in front of other people.

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In obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD)

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worrying about contamination and dirt are the most common obsession.

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The DSM-IV-TR category of mood disorders is characterized

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by serious or persistent disturbances or fluctuations in persons emotional state they cause psychological comfort,impairs the ability to function

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In the disorder called Dissociative Identity Disorder

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The alters of distinct personality can be different ages and genders

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The most common type of hallucination

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occurs in Schizophrenia is auditory

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The onset of schizophrenia typically occurs in

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during early adulthood

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The branches of psychology that studies how people think,feel,and behave is called

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Social Psychlogy

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Social Categorization is

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The mental process of classifying people into groups on the basis of common characteristics.

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The common tendency in individualistic cultures to attribute the behavior of others while to internal personal characteristics while ignoring external situation factors is called

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Fundamental Attribution error

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According to the textbook, an attitude is formally defined as

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A learned tendency to evaluate or issue in a particular way that may be positive,negative, and ambivalent

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The tendency to judge the behavior of members of your group more favorably members to other groups is called

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In-group bias

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In psychology the term personality refers to

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to an individuals unique and relatively consistant patterns of thinking,feeling,and behaving

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According to Freud the interpretation of dreams,

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the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activity of the mind.

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The ego defense mechanism

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distorts thoughts and perceptions of reality

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According to Freud's theory the Oedipus complex

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is the child's unconscious sexual desire for opposite sex parent

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According to Carl Young, The collective unconscious

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Is part of the unconcious mind that reflex human and evolutionary history is common to all people

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An psycho analyst Karen Horne's view

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people who move against others have a strong needs in power and feeling for superioty

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Humanistic theories of personality

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have helped promote the scientific study of human aggression

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Accroding to reciprocal deteriminism

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unconscious and conscious forces operate together in natures of personalty

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Social cognitive theory

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tend to believe that people are responsible for directing controlling their behavior

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The main strength of protective test

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is that they provide a great deal of qualitative information it which will be helpful psycho therapy

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The best definition for stress is

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a negative emotional state caused your perception that you are unable to cope with events and circumstances

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Heath psychology is guided

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bio,psycho,social model of elf, illness and well being

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The Canadian chronologist

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defines stress as a nonspecific stress of the body to any demand placed on it and describes a respond to prolong stress called the called the general adaption symdrome

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psychological researchers constantly shown,

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That having a sense of control over a stressful situation reduces impact of stressor and increasing feeling of anxiety and depression

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The component of a type A personality pattern

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predicts the conary heart disease is hostility

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problem focus coping is primary aimed

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at directly changing or managing a threatening or a harmful stressor.

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The textbook identifies several emotion focus coping strategies this includes

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distancing, escape avoidance , and positive reappraisal

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Most people use multiple coping strategies to stressful situations

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In the initial stages we often rely on emotion focus coping strategies by to help us stepback emotioally from the problem but once we regain on the their emotional equilibrium we may rely on problem focus coping strategies to identify potential solutions to or situation.

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An anxiety hierarchy

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Is a list of specific anxiety producing scenes a ranging them from least to most anxiety provoking thst are related to a person's fear or phobia.

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Psychologist are using virtual reality technology

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To create computer generate images that can be use as a systematic desensitization therepy

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The drug antabuse is used

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Inversive conditioning therepy for alcohol addiction.

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A token economy

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Is the system for stengthening desirable behaviors in the group of people in the same setting such as a correctional instituition or psychiatric ward.

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To the most influential forms cognitive of psycho therepy

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Rational cognitive emotive therepy ret and cognitive therepy ct.

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According Albert Ellis

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A psychologically healthy response response to unpleasant or disappointing situation is to respond with rational belief experience approperate emotion of dissapointment or sadness and constructivly change and cope with difficult situations.

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A therepy that uses a pragmatic approach that involves a treat ment plan that intregates behavior modification techniques in cognitive therepy techniques is

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Cognitive behavioral therepy

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