Psychotherapies

Which of the following best illustrates insight-based therapy?

• A client takes various psychoactive drugs to treat a mental disorder.
• A therapist and client work together with the goal of identifying the problem and reaching a possible solution.
• The therapist combines various techniques from many different therapeutic approaches.
• The therapist helps the client discovered the true cause of the problem, which might initially be hidden from the patient.

Which of the following is one major difference between a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist?

• A psychiatrist uses biomedical treatment.
• A psychiatrist uses an eclectic approach.
• A psychiatrist cannot counsel patients.
• A psychiatrist treats patients in hospitals.

Which of the following disorders has, in some circumstances, been treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?

• paranoid personality disorder
• obsessive-compulsive disorder
• schizophrenia 
• major depression

Joy's therapist is trying to encourage her to take charge of the therapy session. The therapist uses active listening while Joy discusses her feelings. Which therapy type is most likely being described?

• Psychodynamic therapy
• Rational emotive behavior therapy
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy
• client-centered therapy

The antidepressant drug Prozac does which of the following?

• Blocks the reuptake of dopamine
• Blocks the reuptake of serotonin
• Decreases the amount of adrenaline in the blood stream
• Levels the amount of epinephrine

Albert Ellis devised a therapy that can be very confrontational. The client must face the irrationality of his or her belief system. What is the name of this form of therapy?

• Cognitive-Behavior therapy
• Gestalt therapy
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
• Insight therapy

Aversive therapy refers to:

• An operant conditioning therapy that uses negative reinforcement to continue behavior
• Use of classical conditioning to create a negative reaction to a stimulus that the client must learn to avoid
• The use of modeling behavior so clients can see the consequences of negative behaviors
• Use of systematic desensitization to treat phobias.

Gestalt therapy includes which of the following?

• Free association
• ECT
• Empty-chair technique
• Token economy

If a patient expresses a strong emotion toward a therapist, the therapist may understand this as a reflection of feelings that the person has toward another significant figure in the patient's life. This is called:

• Resistance
• Transference
• Free Association
• Projection

Which of the following is a major goal of Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy?

• to rid an individual of his or her internal negative thought processes
• to change an individual's negative behavior
• to enable a person to become self-actualized
• to help a client change learned or modeled behavior