Psychology Topic 13 – Flashcards
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Sequence in psychological treatment
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assessment -> Diagnosis -> Treatment
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Relationship between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalysis is one type of psychotherapy
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What type of psychotherapy places the greatest emphasis on early childhood and internal emotions and drives?
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Psychodynamic therapy
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What might be used in psychoanalysis
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Dream analysis, free association, consideration of past experiences
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free association
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the therapist listens while the client talks about whatever comes to mind
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Insight
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An understanding by the client of the unconscious causes of his or her symptoms
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Resistance
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The patient's attempts to avoid the painful feelings in his or her unconscious
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Defense Mechanism
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The methods used by the patient to avoid the painful feelings in his or her unconscious
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Transference
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The transfer of strong feelings about parents or authority figures to a psychoanalyst
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according to humanistic therapists, psychological disorders are primarily caused by:
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limits and expectations imposed by others
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Person-centered therapy
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The therapist attempts to provide unconditional positive regard
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unconditional positive regard
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all-accepting, not necessarily approving
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Flooding
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the client is exposed to his or her fear all at once
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A procedure used in systematic desensitization
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the client imagines the feared object while trying to relax
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Procedure used in Aversion therapy
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An unpleasant stimulus is paired with an undesirable behavior of the client
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procedures used in cognitive therapy
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the client is helped to identify incorrect or distorted beliefs
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rational-emotive behavior therapy
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approach to therapy that emphasizes the challenging of irrational, unrealistic beliefs
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Dialectical behavioral therapy is often used to treat
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Bipolar personality disorder
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A goal of dialectical behavioral therapy is to:
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get the patient to help out with his or her own treatment
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Electoconvulsive therapy is a ___ approach to treatment
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Biomedical
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Prozac is an example of which kind of antidepressant drug?
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SSRI
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A dose of psychostimulants prescribed to treat ADHD usually lasts:
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4-12 hours
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Side effects of psychostimulants
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irritability, sleep disturbances, weight loss
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SSRI's compared to tricyclics or MAOIs are
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prescribed more frequently and have fewer side effects
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Lithium carbonate is used to treat
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bipolar disorders
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Thorazine is used to treat
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Schizophrenia
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Electoconvulsive therapy
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a medical procedure in which brief seizures are created in the brain. It is very effective in the short term
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What is a negative of electroconvulsive therapy
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memory loss
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation
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A medical procedure that uses a pulsing coil to stimulate the brain. USed to treat depression
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Cingulotomy
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Surgery that destroys brain tissue
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Group therapy is:
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Most likely to provide social support to clients, less expensive to provide, as least as effective as individual therapy. Especially effective for individuals with life-altering illnesses
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Family therapy is which type of approach to treatment:
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A social-cultural approach
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AA is an example of a
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self help group
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Traditional therapy aims to ___; community mental health aims to ___.
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Treat; prevent
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Primary prevention
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prevention targeted at everyone in a given community
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Secondary prevention
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prevention targeted at people displaying the risk factors for a disorder
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risk factors
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social, environmental, and economic vulnerabilities making it more likely that an individual will develop a disorder
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tertiary prevention
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targeted at people who have been diagnosed with a disorder
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outcome research
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studies that assess the effectiveness of medical treatments
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natural improvement
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people get better over time, even without treatment
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nonspecific treatment
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people improve over time simply by attending therapy
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placebo effect
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people improve simply because they expect to get better
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effect size
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a statistical measure of the effectiveness of psychological treatment
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empirically supported therapies
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known to be effective on the basis of research
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Psychotropic drugs are less helpful for
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phobic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Since the advent of federal legislation in the 1970s, blood-lead levels among children have fallen by about _____%.
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80
