Question 1

This therapy is often conducted in a group format, it sometimes incorporates role playing, and it can be rather confrontational. This is ______________ therapy.

Accepted Answer

Gestalt therapy often involves group sessions, uses techniques like role-playing to enhance self-awareness and personal responsibility, and can be confrontational as it challenges clients to confront issues they may be avoiding.

Question 2

Your Gestalt therapist is about to suggest a new exercise for you try. Which of the following is she likely to suggest?

Accepted Answer

The empty chair exercise is a technique used in Gestalt therapy to help clients explore their feelings and thoughts towards someone or something by talking to an empty chair as if the person or object were present.

Question 3

You are treating a patient and want to use a behaviour therapy. However, the hospital insists that the therapy must be based on operant conditioning. Which of the following should you choose?

Accepted Answer

A token economy is based on operant conditioning principles, where desired behaviors are reinforced with tokens that can be exchanged for various rewards.

Question 4

According Ellis's rational-emotive ABCD model, what does the "C" stand for?

Accepted Answer

In Ellis's rational-emotive ABCD model, the "C" stands for Consequences. The model outlines how beliefs about activating events (A) influence emotional and behavioral consequences (C).

Question 5

You are an administrator for a large psychiatric hospital. A new patient has just arrived with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. You should assign this patient to a therapist who specializes in

Accepted Answer

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is specifically designed to treat borderline personality disorder and has been shown to be effective in managing symptoms associated with the disorder.

Question 6

Although they are rather similar, one difference between cognitive therapy and rational-emotive therapy is that the former concentrates on automatic thoughts, while the latter is concerned with _____________.

Accepted Answer

Cognitive therapy focuses on identifying and changing distorted or inaccurate thought patterns, emotions, and behaviors, while rational-emotive therapy (developed by Albert Ellis) emphasizes identifying and changing irrational beliefs that cause emotional distress.

Question 7

One of your patients is suffering from a severe disorder and nothing else has worked. Consequently, you recommend electroconvulsive therapy. Most likely, your patient was suffering from

Accepted Answer

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is most commonly used for severe depression, especially when other treatments have failed. It can be highly effective in treating symptoms of major depressive disorder.

Question 8

You are interested in pursuing psychodynamic therapy, but you have a time constraint (no more than 20 sessions). Which of the following therapies should you try?

Accepted Answer

Interpersonal therapy is a brief, attachment-focused psychotherapy that centers on resolving interpersonal problems and symptomatic recovery. It is typically conducted within a limited number of sessions, often around 12-20, making it suitable for someone with time constraints.

Question 9

Which of the following pays the least amount of attention to internal factors such as thoughts, feelings, or unconscious dynamics?

Accepted Answer

Behaviour therapies focus primarily on observable behavior and the ways in which it can be altered through various techniques such as conditioning. They pay less attention to internal mental states compared to the other approaches listed.

Question 10

One of your patients suffers from schizophrenia. You have addressed this with a drug treatment, however, you should be careful to watch for

Accepted Answer

Tardive dyskinesia is a known potential side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic medications, which are commonly prescribed to manage schizophrenia. It involves involuntary movements, especially of the lower face.

Question 11

One of your patients is suffering from a severe disorder and nothing else has worked. Consequently, you recommend a cingulotomy. Most likely, your patient was suffering from

Accepted Answer

A cingulotomy is a neurosurgical procedure that targets the cingulate gyrus in the brain. It is most commonly recommended for patients with severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) when other treatments have failed.

Question 12

The basic principle behind systematic desensitization is

Accepted Answer

Systematic desensitization is based on counterconditioning, where a new response that is incompatible with anxiety is conditioned to the anxiety-provoking stimuli.

Question 13

Interestingly, it may not matter what type of therapy you actually use. For a wide variety of disorders, outcomes are essentially the same. This finding has been called the

Accepted Answer

The "dodo bird verdict" refers to the finding that, across a wide range of psychological disorders, different types of therapy tend to have similar effectiveness. This term is derived from the Dodo bird character in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," who declared, "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes," suggesting that all therapies are winners in terms of their effectiveness.

Question 14

Let's say that you have a strong fear of flying. To treat this fear, your therapist asks you to imagine being in a plane and flying until you are no longer showing anxiety. Your therapist has just used the technique of

Accepted Answer

Implosion therapy involves the client being exposed to vivid, imagined situations related to their phobias or fears, such as flying in this case, until the anxiety diminishes. This technique does not involve real-life exposure but rather mental simulation of the feared situation.

Question 15

You are treating a patient for unipolar depression and decide to proscribe drugs. In order to minimize any side effects of the drug, your best choice to prescribe would be a(n)

Accepted Answer

SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) are generally considered to have a more favorable side effect profile compared to other antidepressants like MAO inhibitors and tricyclics, making them a preferred first-line treatment for unipolar depression.

Question 16

On your regular rounds of the hospital, you notice a patient displaying tardive dyskinesia. Most likely, this patient would be suffering from

Accepted Answer

Tardive dyskinesia is a side effect often associated with long-term use of antipsychotic medications, which are commonly prescribed for schizophrenia. This condition involves involuntary, repetitive body movements.

Question 17

Your therapist suggests that it would be a good idea if you try the empty-chair technique in your next session. What kind of therapy are you in?

Accepted Answer

The empty-chair technique is a method used in Gestalt therapy, where clients engage in a dialogue with an imagined person or aspect of themselves sitting in an empty chair. This technique helps clients explore their feelings and thoughts.

Question 18

Dr. Jordan specializes in dialectical behaviour therapy. Consequently, her clients will most likely have a diagnosis of

Accepted Answer

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is specifically designed to help those with borderline personality disorder (BPD). It focuses on providing therapeutic skills in four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Question 19

All of the following were mentioned by Carl Rogers as important and essential therapist characteristics EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

The answer of All of the following were mentioned by...

Question 20

Counterconditioning is most similar to

Accepted Answer

The answer of Counterconditioning is most similar to
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Quiz 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders