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According to current research, there are ____ main forms of treatment used to help cure psychological disorders.

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Four

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Which therapy involves using pharmaceutical medications to treat the symptoms of psychological disorders?

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Drug therapy

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The first medications used to manage psychotic symptoms are called

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Traditional antipsychotics

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What is a classic unpleasant side effect of traditional antipsychotics?

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Tardive dyskinesia

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____ treats depression and acts by reducing the action of the enzyme monoamine oxidase, which breaks down monoamine neurotransmitters in the brain.

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MAO inhibitors

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Tricyclic medications are used to treat ____.

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Depression

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____ make more serotonin available in the synapse.

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SSRIs

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Which drug types are most commonly used to treat anxiety?

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Barbiturates Benzodiazepines

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Lithium is what class of drugs?

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Mood stabilizer

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Electroconclusive therapy (ECT) has been used in the treatment of which psychological disorders?

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Schizophrenia Depression

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What describes repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulatoin?

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Exposure or particular brain structures to bursts of high intensity magnetic fields

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____ drugs are a class of medications used to treat depression and improve the moods of the patients.

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Antidepressant

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The most well-known widely used mood stabilizer is ____, and it has been used successfully to treat bipolar disorder.

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Lithium

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____ therapy approaches build on the basic processes of learning and assume that both abnormal and normal behavior are learned.

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Behavioral

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What are the goals of psychotherapy?

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To help patients develop insight into their own behavior To modify maladaptive thoughts To modify maladaptive behaviors

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Psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, and cognitive-behavioral are all types of ____ approaches.

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Psychotherapeutic

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____ therapy consists of guiding clients to consider their past experiences, from their first memories, as well as uncovering unconscious conflict.

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Psychoanalytic

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Psychological strategies individuals employ to protects themselves from unacceptable impulses are called ____.

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defense mechanisms

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What is the most basic defense mechanism?

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Repression

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____ is a defense mechanism which pushes threatening conflicts and impulses back into the unconscious.

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Repression

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____ is the process of releasing intense emotions in a therapeutic setting.

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Catharsis

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____ therapies seek to help the client reach his or her greatest potential.

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Humanistic

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The fundamental notion that a gap exists between what a person wants to be and who they are is tenet of

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Client-centered therapy

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Which technique involves reinforcing desirable behaviors with a toy coin (or something similar), which can be in turn be exchanged for prizes or privileges?

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The token economy

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In ____, gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety.

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Systematic desensitization

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____ treatment approaches teach people to think more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and about themselves.

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Cognitive

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____ therapy is any type of therapy that works to restructure irrational thought patterns.

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Cognitive

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In group therapy, the therapist acts ____.

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As a facilitator

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Which statement best represents behavioral therapy?

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It builds on the basic processes of learning and assumes that abnormal behavior is learned

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What represents psychoanalytic therapy?

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Seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious.

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Free association, transference and the uncovering of repressed defenses are tools that may lead a client to ____.

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Catharsis

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____ therapy has the underlying rationale that people have control of their behavior, can make choices about their lives, and are essentially able to solve their own problems.

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Humanistic/Positive

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____ therapy is a form of humanistic/positive therapy, in which the therapist shows unconditional positive regard for the client.

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Client-centered

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Systematic desensitization and ____ are types of behavioral therapies.

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Token economy

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____ treatment approaches teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and about themselves.

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Cognitive

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The definition of technology-based therapy identifies the use of technology or the internet is ____.

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To complement current therapies To make psychotherapeutic techniques available to more people

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To put forth efforts to decrease the likelihood of disorders occurring, you are focusing on ____.

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Prevention

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The ____ consists of severing connections between the prefrontal lobes and the lower portion of the brain.

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Prefrontal lobotomy

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A client-centered therapist who expresses feeling of acceptance towards a client, regardless of what the client does or feels, is expressing ____ regard.

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Unconditional positive

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What are the levels of exposure in systematic desenitization?

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Virtual Real Imagined

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One very well-known example of an ongoing ____ is Alcoholics Anonymous.

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Support group

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What therapy is regarded as a last resort for severely depressed people who have not responded to any other therapy. Despite this, its effects last only as long as the treatment does and it is known to have severe side effects including memory loss and confusion.

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ECT

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Cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) are useful for treating ____.

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Eating disorders Depression

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Tricylic antidepressants, aside from being used to treat depression, are also used to treat ____.

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Chronic pain ADHD Bed wetting

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Dream interpretation is a key technique used by ____.

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Psychoanalysts

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____-based cognitive-behavioral therapy is an approach that combines elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with mediation to help people with depression learn not to cling to negative thought patterns.

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Mindfulness

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The ____ lobotomy fell out of favor not only because it could leave the patient in a vegetative state and/or produce profound personality changes, but the practice was also regarded as cruel and inhumane.

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Prefrontal

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A therapist helps a client to change the client's automatic negative thoughts, while also helping the client to learn new, healthier behaviors. This therapist is most likely using ____.

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy

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What are some of the critiques of ECT?

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It does not produce long-term improvement When it does work, we do not know why After treatments, patients often experience disorientation, confusion, and sometimes memory loss

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In systematic desensitzation, ____ exposure is simply people visualizing contact with the phobic object.

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Imagined

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____ helps diminish a hallucinations, confusion, agitation, and paranoia in people with schizophrenia.

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Phenothiazines

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SSRIs can be used to treat ____.

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Depression Anxiety

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The purpose of free association is to allow the therapist the opportunity to identify connections between what a patient says and the patient's ____.

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Unconscious thoughts

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Virtual reality therapies have been used to treat ____.

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Phobias PTSD

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The ____ antipsychotics are newer antipsychotic drugs which do not create tardive dyskinesia.

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Atypical

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What drugs are used to treat bed wetting, ADHD, and in chronic pain management?

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Tricyclic antidepressants

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The purpose of expressing ____ unconditional positive regard is to create a caring, non-judgmental therapeutic environment.

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Unconditional

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____ behavior therapy is a program developed specifically for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, which integrates elements of CBT with mindfulness and meditation exercises.

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Dialectical

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What therapy is based on Freud's psychoanalytic approach to personality?

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Psychodynamic

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