What Therapy Is
What is one advantage of individual therapy over group therapy?
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In this method of therapy, patients become aware of unconscious thoughts & feelings that are at the root of their problems.
Psychoanalysis
Cognitive therapy works best for treating what disorder?
Depression
This is the most widely used biological treatment for psychological disorders.
Drug Therapy
Name one technique that Freud used in psychoanalytic therapy.
Dream Analysis, Free Association
What is one advantage of group therapy over individual therapy?
Less expensive, people realize they are not alone and can support each other
In this technique, patients are asked to relax and say whatever comes to their mind.
Free Association
Behavior therapy works best for treating what disorders?
Phobias, PTSD, Compulsive Behaviors
These drugs work by depressing the activity of the central nervous system.
Antianxiety drugs
In this communication technique, the listener repeats, rephrases, and asks for clarification of the speaker's statements.
Active Listening
This type of group therapy is composed of people who share the same problem.
Self-Help Group
The goal of this type of therapy is to help people reach their full potential.
Humanistic Therapy
This counterconditioning technique is used to help people overcome fears.
Systematic Desensitization
These are the types of drugs used to treat schizophrenia.
Antipsychotic Drugs
What drug is used to treat bipolar disorder?
Lithium
Name one common type of group therapy.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Couples Therapy, Family Therapy
The actual subject matter of a dream is called what?
Manifest Content
This cognitive therapy approach focuses on challenging faulty assumptions.
Rational-Emotive Therapy
In this procedure, an electrical current is passed through the person's brain.
Electroconvulsive Therapy
This refers to the hidden meaning of a dream.
Latent Content
Name two of the three goals of psychotherapy.
1) Give people hope for recovery 2) Help people gain different perspectives 3) Establish a trusting relationship with the therapist
This technique exposes unresolved problems in earlier relationships. Problems with others may be directed at the therapist.
Transference
This therapy focuses on restructuring illogical thought processes and is gentler than Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Beck's Cognitive Therapy
These drugs work by increasing the amounts of one or both neurotransmitters, noradrenaline and serotonin.
Antidepressants
This is a kind of humanistic therapy in which the client, not the therapist, leads the therapy.
Nondirective Therapy