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Question 41

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Electroconvulsive therapy has proven extremely successful at alleviating the symptoms associated with

A) serious depression.
B) obsessive-compulsive behavior.
C) anxiety disorders.
D) all forms of mental disorders.

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Question 42

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A psychiatrist who makes use of electric shock and prescription medications in his treatment of patients would be classified as a ________ therapist.

A) humanistic
B) cognitive
C) behavior
D) biomedical

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Question 43

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A type of therapy developed by Fritz Perls that attempts to make a person whole by expressing pent-up feelings and dealing with unfinished business from past conflicts is called ________ therapy.

When a therapist is proposing a probable etiology, he or she is estimating the course the problem will take with and without any treatment.

The human-potential movement, which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s, resulted most directly in

A person who is undergoing catharsis while in a session of psychoanalytic therapy will express strongly felt, but usually repressed, emotions.

A friend's grandmother is about to undergo electroconvulsive therapy. He is worried about what will happen to his grandmother, so he asks you what side effects can be expected. You should tell your friend that his grandmother will

Imagine that you are asked to role-play a client-centered therapist in a classroom exercise. When the student who is playing your client screams, "Nobody does what I tell them to!" you should respond

A psychoanalyst has noticed that whenever a patient begins talking about his father, he has very little to say or he will quickly change the topic. When his father finally is discussed, the patient claims that his father is irrelevant. The therapist is most likely to interpret the patient's behavior as an instance of

Posted on the wall in the room where the wrestling team practices, a sign reads: "You can achieve it if you believe it and if you believe it you can do it!" The wrestlers might not realize it, but this statement is very similar to a basic assumption of

Antipsychotic drugs cure schizophrenia, eliminating the underlying psychopathology.

A researcher believes that if a new form of therapy works, it works only because the patient expects it to work. In psychology, this phenomenon is referred to as

Imagine that you are reading a case of a woman who has undergone an operation known as a prefrontal lobotomy. You can expect that after the operation the woman will

In family therapy, the "client" is a whole nuclear family, and each family member is treated as a member of a system of relationships.

In a sample of 936 men and women, researchers examined the rate at which people with mental illness are the victims of violent crime such as robbery or assault. Results revealed that

__________ is a statistical technique for evaluating hypotheses by providing a formal mechanism for detecting the general conclusions found in data from many different experiments.

Lithium salts have proven effective in the treatment of bipolar disorders.

Deinstitutionalization refers to the practice of

ECT is particularly important because it works quickly, it alleviates symptoms of depression in ________ course of treatment as compared with the ________ time window for drug therapies.

When a child was an infant, she received a lot of attention because of an illness. Now, although she is healthy, she still demands attention. When she is put to bed at night, she cries until her parents come and hold her. A behavioral psychologist's suggestion that her parents should ignore her crying is an example of