Biological Treatments for Mental Disorders
Medications frequently given to people suffering from bipolar disorder
mood stabilizers
Father of the "talking cure"
Sigmund Freud
Approach to doing therapy by identifying how each family member forms part of a larger interacting system is identified as
Family-systems perspective
True or False? Therapy helps with Anxiety disorders
True
Boot camp interventions for conduct disorder can be harmful because it causes what?
It causes more Aggression and conduct problems
Antidepressant drugs
True or False? Critical process in which the client displaces unconscious emotions or reaction, such as emotional feelings about his or her parents onto the therapist is called Flooding?
False! This is called Transference
True or False? Families are always aware on the influences they have on one another
False, Families are usually unaware
Cognitive therapy is successful in reducing chronic anger, hostility and what other factor
Abusiveness
When are African Americans likely to go to therapy?
When their therapists ethnicity matches themselves.
True or False? Drugs have helped rescue people who live with chronic problems like obsessive-compulsive disorder
True
Which of the following Behavioral Techniques addresses fear, distress, and specific phobias like the fear of fishes.
Exposure Therapy
Insight into unconscious motives and feelings that prolong symptoms is a method of
Psychodynamic
True or False? Therapy should last six months before the client is feeling better.
False, there is no simple rule for how long therapy should last.
Being aware of clients cultural differences what are things you should stay away from as a therapist?
Stereotyping Clients
When a person stops taking antipsychotic before learning to cope with their disorder, what happens?
They Relapse.
Which therapy allows you identify your biases, examine evidence, and consider others interpretations?
cognitive therapy
What does Existential Therapy allow clients to explore?
the meaning of existence and face the great questions of life.
What are the concerns of Rehabilitation psychologists?
Assessment and treatment of people who are physically disabled, temporarily or permanently because of chronic pain, physical injuries, or other conditions.
What are the four main ways interventions have the potential to harm clients?
1. Use of empirically, unsupported, potentially dangerous techniques.
2. Inappropriate or coercive influences
3. Prejudice or ignorance on part of the therapist
4. Sexual intimacies or other unethical behavior from the therapist
A procedure that alters brain function by electrically stimulating the brain externally is called
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Albert Ellis's form of cognitive therapy which is also a school of cognitive therapy, challenges client's unrealistic thoughts, What is the name of his therapy?
Rational emotive behavior therapy
Facing the fear of death is associated with which of the following Therapy's; Family Therapy or Existential Therapy
Existential Therapy
Changing your behavior through psychotherapy also allows something in your body to function differently as well, What is it?
The Brain
True or False? Psychotherapy can turn clients into introverts and provide a life without problems
False, psychotherapy can only help you make decisions and clarify your values and goals.