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treatments developed to help clients gain insight into their fundamental self-worth and value as human beings
humanistic therapy
The therapy the assumes that the behaviors are the problem and apply learning principles to eliminate unwanted behaviors?
behavior therapies
Brief verbal affirmations like “I see,” “I know,” “Sure,” “Thank you,” or “I understand” are all examples of...
active listening
It is possible for some psychological treatments to ________ but also ________-by making people worse or preventing their getting better
be ineffective, harmful
Which is not a symptom that indicates a health profession should be sought?
a. self-disrupted behavior
b. feelings of hopelessness
c. being a productive
d. thoughts of suicide
c. being a productive
A therapist seeks to understand a client's experiences without indicating approval or disapproval is an example of what?
unconditional positive regard
What therapy technique uses an integrated approach to alter the way clients think
and act and make clients aware of irrational negative thinking and replace it with new ways of thinking
cognitive behavioral therapy
What was Freud's therapeutic technique?
free association
Because most people enter therapy when they are __________ and usually leave when they are ____________, most therapists, like most clients, testify to therapy's success-___________
unhappy, less unhappy, regardless of the treatment
a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies
meta-analysis
Approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms
of therapy
Eclectic approach
painting back tasting nail polish on finger nails to stop a person from biting their finger nails in an example of what type of therapy?
aversive conditioning
Rogers believed in ___-___, _____ therapy
person-centered, nondirective
People with more specific problems are more likely to experience _____ than those with less-focused problems (relapse).
improvement
What is one thing that is not suggested to look for when selecting a therapist?
a. Question the therapist’s values, credentials, and fees.
b. Seek preliminary consultation with several therapists
c. ignore treatment approach and training
d. Look for indications of a potential therapeutic alliance.
c. ignore treatment approach and training
What are the goals of psychodynamic therapy
Understand symptoms by focusing on important relationships and events and explore defended-against thoughts and feelings.
The operant conditioning strategy typically used in classrooms in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behaviour and can later exchange the tokens for privileges
token economy
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s
physiology
Biomedical therapy
True or false: Scared Straight, D.A.R.E., some weight-reduction and pedophile rehabilitation efforts are very effective pseudopsychological treatments
false
What are the elements of all psychotherapies?
Hope for demoralized people, new perspective, and therapeutic alliance: Empathic, trusting, caring
relationship
Treatment involving psychological techniques; someone seeking to
overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
Psychotherapy
The group of techniques that us counterconditioning, exposure therapy, systematic desenstitization, and VR exposure therapy?
classical conditioning techniques.
What are the goals of psychoanalysis?
Energy release, Conscious awareness of repressed feelings, Insights into origins of personal disorders and reduction of
inner conflicts
Those not undergoing therapy often ________, but those undergoing therapy are _________ to improve and to improve __________ and with _________ of relapse
improve, more likely, faster, less risk
treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interaction between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
psychotherapy