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Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are likely to be treated with ___, which are directly on the patients nervous system.
What is biomedical therapy?
Ginny believe that people with psychological disorders are suffering from diseases that have physical causes and that those disorders can be diagnosed, treated, and sometimes cured. Ginny believes in the ___ model of psychological disorders
What is medical?
How many suicides involve firearms and end in death?
What is 90%?
While researchers have discovered that there are an excessive number of receptor sites for ___,it is not the only neurotransmitter involved in schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
____ therapy refers to therapy that is provided by 1 or more therapists working with several people.
What is group therapy?
What would you consider to be the primary goal of psychoanalysis?
What is to provide unconscious conflicts to conscious awareness to help the person gain insight into conflicts and resolve them
To help Josie lose weight, her therapist first attempted to assess whether her weight loss might affect her husband. The therapist's concern is MOST characteristic of a:
What is a family therapist?
___ is especially likely to focus on the goal of healing social relationships>
What is family therapy?
Jess, who has chronic schizophrenia, is more likely to demonstrate the ___ symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is negative?
Which of the following therapies is an integrative therapy that combines changing self-defearing thinking with changing behavior?
Roxanne suffers from bulimia> At the ED clinic, her therapist is likely to use:
What cognitive-behavioral therapy?
40 year old Kyra has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her selective attention is deficient, she unable to ignore irrelevant stimuli, and she often gives her undivided attention minute stimuli. This type of attention problem is thought to contribute to:
What are disorganized thoughts?
People with schizophrenia often have disturbed perceptions, such as ___ which are sensory experiences without sensory stimulation:
What are hallucinations?
DSM-5 provides mental health professionals with:
What is both a common language for labeling psychological disorders and comprehensive guidelines for diagnosing.
After months of psychoanalysis, Moby's therapist felt it was time to offer several explanations of Moby's dreams and free associations to help his client recognize unconscious conflicts and motivations. The therapist was using a psychoanalytic technique called:
What is interpretation?
75 year old Wally lost his wife to a heart attack 2 years ago, and most of his friends have passed on. His children live in other states and he has no pets. In terms of risk factors for suicide, Wally:
What is more likely because the suicide rate surges among older men?
What is catatonia?
At his weekly therapy session, Henry became agitated at his therapist, saying that she was controlling, domineering, and trying to ruin his life with her mothering. A psychoanalyst illustrates:
What is transference?
A basic element of all effective psychotherapies is the:
What is clients expectation that psychotherapy will make things better
____ would be likely to persuade depressed patients to reverse their catastrophizing beliefs about themselves and their futures>
Matt is a transgender veteran. He always felt stigmatized by his military peers, because of his he is ____ to die by suicide where compared to his cisgender peers.
What is twice as likely?
He insisted that madness was not demon possession but that it was a sickness of the mind, caused by severe stress and inhumane conditions
Who is Philippe Pinel?
Ron experienced oxygen deprivation at the time of birth. This is a known risk factor for:
What is schizophrenia?
The goal of this type or therapy is to help patients gain insight into repressed impulses and conflicts. The therapy is called ____ and was developed by _____.
What are psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud
____ therapies focus on conscious thoughts and self perceptions rather than an unconscious and repressed thoughts and impulses