Chapter 17: Therapy

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Chapter 17 Therapy
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While focusing on several intrusive thoughts that
had been bothering her recently, Jenny was
instructed by her therapist to report any ideas
or memories stimulated by these thoughts. Jennys
therapist was making use of a technique known as

• A. active listening.
• B. free association.
• C. systematic desensitization.
• D. transference.

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Humanistic therapies differ from psychoanalytic
therapies in all of the following ways, EXCEPT

• A. psychoanalytic therapists are more likely to
  encourage the client to take immediate
  responsibility for feelings.
• B. humanistic therapists are more oriented to
  the present and future, rather than the past.
• C. psychoanalytic therapists are more likely to
  emphasize unconscious processes.
• D. humanistic therapists are more
  growth-oriented.

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McKenzies therapist believes that active
listening is an extremely important component of
therapy. He is probably a

• A. psychoanalyst.
• B. cognitive therapist.
• C. behavior therapist.
• D. client-centered therapist.

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Client-centered therapists emphasize the
importance of

• A. exploring clients childhood relationships
  with other family members.
• B. interpreting the meaning of clients
  nonverbal behaviors.
• C. enabling clients to feel unconditionally
  accepted.
• D. helping clients identify a hierarchy of
  anxiety-arousing experiences.

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A therapist helps Rebecca overcome her fear of
water by getting her to swim in the familys
backyard pool three times a day for two
consecutive weeks. The therapists approach to
helping Rebecca best illustrates

• A. stress inoculation training.
• B. aversive conditioning.
• C. exposure therapy.
• D. humanistic therapy.

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A cognitive therapist would be most likely to
say

• A. That sounds quite frustrating. It isnt
  easy to be in a situation like that.
• B. Can you think of a more positive
  interpretation of what happened?
• C. Just say whatever comes to mind, no matter
  how trivial or irrelevant it might seem.
• D. Next time you start to feel anxious, you
  can use the relaxation techniques weve been
  working on.

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For which of the following disorders is
psychotherapy most likely to be effective in the
long run?

• A. generalized anxiety disorder
• B. major depressive disorder
• C. chronic schizophrenia
• D. phobias

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Researchers have sought to answer the question,
Does psychotherapy work? Generally speaking,
the answer seems to be

• A. yes, people in therapy improve more than
  people in control groups.
• B. yes, but people in therapy improve at the
  same rate as people who are receiving placebo
  treatments.
• C. no, therapy does not provide any benefits
  people who just let time pass improve at the same
  rate as people in therapy.
• D. no one really knows, because so far the only
  method used to answer this question has been
  interviewing former therapy clients.

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The effectiveness of psychotherapy shows little
if any connection to

• A. the level of training and experience of the
  therapist.
• B. the length of time a client has experienced
  symptoms of disorder prior to therapy.
• C. the particular disorder experienced by a
  client.
• D. the extent to which the process depends on
  changing clients personalities.

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The placebo effect best illustrates the
importance of _______ in therapeutic success.

• A. active listening
• B. psychopharmacology
• C. behavior modification
• D. cognitive processes

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Critical Thinking Questions
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If a therapist tells a client, Rank order the
things that frighten you from least to most, the
therapist is most likely practicing

• A. Freudian therapy.
• B. systematic desensitization.
• C. Gestalt therapy.
• D. token economy.

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Jons therapist laces his alcoholic drink with a
drug that makes Jon sick. After getting sick a
few times, just the sight of the drink makes Jon
nauseous. In this example, the conditioned
stimulus is the

• A. drug.
• B. alcohol.
• C. nauseous response to the drug.
• D. nauseous response to the sight of the drink.

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Your therapist asks you to try to remember your
dreams. He also encourages you to review
incidents in early childhood. Your therapist is
most likely practicing

• A. Freudian therapy.
• B. cognitive therapy.
• C. behavior therapy.
• D. humanistic therapy.

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In your therapy session you often review your
current behaviors as compared to what you think
you should be doing. Your therapist is kind and
listens to your ideas, even if you think they are
silly. Your therapist is most likely practicing

• A. Freudian therapy.
• B. Jungian therapy.
• C. cognitive therapy.
• D. humanistic therapy.

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Samuel receives some very bad news, and feels
quite low. As time passes, you would expect

• A. his emotions to return to their usual state.
• B. his emotions to stay low until something
  unusually good happens to him.
• C. him to become much happier than usual, since
  people typically bounce back and forth between
  emotional extremes.
• D. him to stay emotionally low unless he goes
  in for psychotherapy.