Question 1

Discuss the history of how mental illness has been treated from the Stone Age,through the
Middle Ages until Pinel's work in France,include the approaches used and which mental
disorders that their "patients" were probably suffering from.

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Question 2

Regarding behavior modification,explain how aversion therapy and systematic desensitization are both based on classical conditioning,and list and describe the six operant principles most often used by behavior therapists to deal with human behavior.

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Question 3

Discuss the various types of distant therapies,including how they can be helpful and harmful
to the public,the APA's recommendation for media psychologists,and the advantages and
limitations of the different types.

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Question 4

Describe whether each of the following therapies-psychoanalysis,brief psychodynamic
therapy,client-centered therapy,existential therapy,Gestalt therapy,behavioral therapies,
Beck's cognitive therapy,and Ellis' REBT-would be: (1)classified as either insight therapies
or action therapies and why; (2)whether each of the therapies would be considered directive
or non-directive and why; (3)whether each therapy is usually conducted individually or
conducted both individually and in groups; and (4)list the major strength of each type of
therapy.

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Question 5

Describe the four basic techniques used in Freudian psychoanalysis,and explain the purpose of each.

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Question 6

Discuss deinstitutionalization,including what it was meant to accomplish,the problems that have resulted for the mentally ill,and some workable alternatives.

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Question 7

Your friend is going through a break-up with her boyfriend.Describe how you can best counsel your friend by discussing the nine guidelines

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Question 8

Compare the three humanistic therapies of client-centered therapy,existential therapy,and Gestalt therapy,including how each promotes personal growth and the major techniques used in each.

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Question 9

Explain how Albert Ellis uses his A-B-C analysis in rational-emotive behavior therapy,list the three core ideas from which most irrational beliefs originate,and describe how REBT therapists would attempt to change these beliefs.

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Question 10

You are preoccupied by the negative thought that "you will fail every test you take in college." How could you use thought-stopping to reduce the occurrence of this negative thought?

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Quiz 15: D: Therapies

Discuss the history of how mental illness has been treated from the Stone Age,through the Middle Ages until Pinel's work in France,include the approaches used and which mental disorders that their "patients" were probably suffering from.