Therapy Review

In treating alcohol dependency, therapists have clients consume alcohol that contains a nausea-producing drug. This technique is known as

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  operant conditioning.
• 
  systematic desensitization.
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  aversive conditioning.
• transference

Teaching people to stop blaming themselves for failures and negative circumstances beyond their control is of most direct concern to ________ therapists.

• psychoanalytic
• cognitive
• eclectic
• 
  client-centered

Persuading depressed patients to reverse their catastrophizing beliefs about themselves and their futures is most characteristic of

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  Rogers' client-centered therapy.
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  Beck's cognitive therapy.
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  Wolpe's exposure therapy.
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  Freud's psychoanalysis.

Which of the following therapies is more concerned with removing specific troubling symptoms than with providing special insights into the personality of the client?

• psychoanalysis
• 
  behavior therapy
• 
  client-centered therapy
• 
  cognitive therapy

A procedure that trains people to make new responses to stimuli that currently trigger unwanted responses is called

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  light exposure therapy.
• transference
• counterconditioning
• 
  unconditional positive regard.

Jonathan is afraid to ask a girl for a date, so his therapist instructs him to relax and simply imagine he is reaching for a telephone and then calling a potential date.  The therapist's technique best illustrates the process of

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  interpersonal therapy.
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  free association.
• 
  systematic desensitization.
• 
  aversive conditioning.

Repeatedly introducing people to things they fear and avoid is most characteristic of

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  stress inoculation training.
• 
  exposure therapies.
• behavior modification
• 
  rTMS.

Instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, ________ therapies seek to promote personal growth and self-fulfillment.

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  psychodynamic
• eclectic
• behavior
• humanistic

To encourage Mrs. Coleman, a withdrawn schizophrenia patient, to be more socially active, institutional staff members give her small plastic cards whenever she talks to someone.  She is allowed to exchange these cards for candy and cigarettes. Staff members are making use of

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  active listening.
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  systematic desensitization.
• 
  a token economy.
• 
  free association.

Mr. Choi's therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelings of love and hate for his parents. The therapist's goal best reflects a primary aim of

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  client-centered therapy.
• 
  cognitive therapy.
• psychoanalysis
• 
  systematic desensitization.