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therapy Test

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5 Matching Questions

  1. electroconvulsive therapy
  2. evidence based practice
  3. unconditional positive regard
  4. systematic desensitization
  5. interpretation
  1. a a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias
  2. b a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized paitentre
  3. c in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
  4. d a caring accepting, non judgmental attitude which carl rogers believed would help clients to deveglop self-awarness and self acceptance
  5. e clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.
  2. a variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defense
  3. a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure to therapies and aversive conditioning.
  4. a now-are psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
  5. therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and that seeks to enhance self-sight

5 True/False Questions

  1. psychopharmacologythe study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

          

  2. psychosurgerysurgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

          

  3. antidepressant drugsdrugs used to treat depression, also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work for altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

          

  4. family therapytreatment involving psychological techniques; consist of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

          

  5. biomedical therapytherapy that treats the family as a system. views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members