What are the two main categories mental health therapies are classified into today?
What is psychotherapy and biomedical therapy
100
What do doctors recommend to help seasonal affective disorder?
light therapy
100
In psychoanalysis the patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships is defined as what?
What is transference
100
What is psychopharmacology?
the study of the effects of drugs on mind behavior
100
Whenever Alison cleans her room she is given a dollar. This is an example of what?
What is a token economy
200
Are some therapists more effective than others?
What is no one therapy is a cure all
200
To psychoanalyst the blocks in the flow of patients free associations indicate what?
What is resistance
200
The therapy which applies learning principals to the elimination of unwanted behaviors is referred to as what?
What is behavior therapy
200
What was Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique?
What is psychoanalysis
200
How do anti-depressants work?
by either partially blocking the reabsorption and removal of serotonin from synapses or blocking the reabsorption or breakdown of both norepinephrine and serotonin
300
What 3 elements are shared by all forms of psychotherapy?
What is new hope, fresh perspective, and (if the therapist is effective) an empathetic, trusting, and caring relationship
300
What is EMDR and how does it help people?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Processing: when people move their eyes around to reduce their anxiety
300
Which therapy assumes no person is an island and that we live and grow in relation to others
What is family therapy
300
What is the most popular type of antipsychotic drug?
thorazine
300
The humanistic therapy which was developed by Carl Rogers, that uses techniques including active listening in a safe environment to facilitate growth is referred to as what?
What is client-centered therapy
400
What is psychosurgery?
surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in hopes of modifying behavior
400
What kind of therapists try to understand a patients symptoms based off of themes across important relationships (therapist relationships and childhood)?
What is psychodynamic therapists
400
Half of all therapists describe themselves as taking what kind of approach?
What is eclectic approach
400
What is the long term effect of thorazine?
tardive dyskinesia
400
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing clients awareness of underlying motives and defenses are referred to as what?
What is insight therapies
500
What are the four main types of therapists?
counselors, clinical/psychiatric social workers, clinical psychologists, and psychiatrists
500
“Hearing” refers to Rogers technique of what?
What is active listening
500
Three year old Ben is scared of lizards. As ben is eating an ice cream his mother brings in a pet lizard in a cage across the room. Over time she moves the cage closer and closer. Eventually Ben plays with the lizard as he eats his ice cream. This is an example of what?
What is exposure therapy
500
What theory states that healthier, less anxious living becomes possible when people release the energy focused originally on id-ego-superego conflicts?