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Example Question #81 : Psychological Abnormalities
What are two well-known and generally successful ways to treat acute and post-traumatic stress disorders?
Hypnosis and water-treatment therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy and hypnosis
Group therapy and re-exposure to trauma
Re-exposure to trauma and deep breathing techniques
Group therapy and behavioral-exposure treatments
Group therapy and behavioral-exposure treatments
Many approaches and treatments have found to be successful in reducing PTSD. Some of the most successful include eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, participation in rap or therapy groups, psychological debriefing, insight therapy, and behavioral exposure techniques.
Example Question #82 : Psychological Abnormalities
Which of the following is not a way that phobias are treated?
Flooding
Relaxation training
Avoidance therapy
Modeling by therapists
Systematic desensitization
Avoidance therapy
Exposure treatments are some of the most effective treatments for phobias. Exposure treatments include systematic desensitization, flooding, relaxation training, and participant modeling. Avoidance is not a viable means of overcoming a phobia.
Example Question #83 : Psychological Abnormalities
Which of the following is not a way that therapists can help individuals with dissociative identity disorder?
All of these answers are ways therapists help people with dissociative identity disorder
Try to help the patient merge their subpersonalities into a single, integrated identity
Help the individual recognize the disorder and educate the patient on the full nature of their disorder
Try to get the subpersonalities to all obtain equal power and "face time" in the life of the person
Help the client recover their lost memories and missing pieces of their past
Try to get the subpersonalities to all obtain equal power and "face time" in the life of the person
Dissociative identity disorder is highly disruptive due to the overarching presence of subpersonalities that are controlling different aspects of a person's life. The goal in therapy is to fuse all the personalities, not help them all obtain equal power and "face time" in the life of a person.
Example Question #1 : Other Treatment Principles
Which treatment modality advocates unconditional positive regard for the client?
Bio-behavioral
Humanistic
Developmental
Psychoanalytic
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Humanistic psychology, pioneered by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, is a psychological perspective that advocates the study of the whole person. Unconditional positive regard occurs when therapists support and accept the client wholeheartedly, regardless of the client's expressed views and behaviors.
Example Question #85 : Psychological Abnormalities
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), caused by an increase in melatonin production by the pineal gland, can be treated using which of the following?
Electroconvulsive therapy
Phototherapy
Cognitive therapy
Behavorial therapy
Psychotherapy
Phototherapy
Seasonal affective disorder is a mood disorder associated with episodes of depression during the winter months, and appears to be related to a lack of sunshine causing increased melatonin production by the pineal gland. It can be helped by phototherapy with bright white fluorescent lights.
Behavorial therapy is used to change maladaptive behaviors such as smoking or alcohol abuse. Cognitive therapy is used to remove negative thoughts that harm a person's emotional health. Psychotherapy is any means of treating psychiatric disorders by mental rather than pharmacological means. Electroconvulsive therapy is the use of electric shock to produce convulsions and treat drug-resistant psychiatric disorders.
Example Question #86 : Psychological Abnormalities
Which of the following is not an aspect of psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy?
Free association
Unconditional positive regard
Transference
Resistance
Dream analysis
Unconditional positive regard
Free association, dream analysis, resistance, and transference are all aspects of psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy. Free association is when a patient talks in a relaxed and aimless way about anything that comes to mind so the therapist can try to determine any thoughts that might be repressed. Dream analysis is when the content of a patient's dreams is analyzed in order to understand the patient's unconscious, especially their wishes. Resistance is when a patient blocks memories from the conscious mind and/or becomes resistant to therapy when the therapist is getting near the heart of why the patient is in therapy. Transference is when the patient begins to react to the therapist in ways influenced by their childhood desires.
Unconditional positive regard is an aspect of person-centered humanistic therapy.
Example Question #2 : Other Treatment Principles
Which of the following is not a method of treatment for depression?
Person-centered therapy
Cognitive therapy
Group therapy
Anti-depressant medications (like SSRIs)
Systematic exposure
Systematic exposure
SSRIs, cognitive therapy, group therapy, and person-centered therapy are all treatments for depression; systematic desensitization is a therapy for anxiety disorders, especially phobias.
Example Question #3 : Other Treatment Principles
All of the following are true statements about Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), EXCEPT __________.
they are never combined with cognitive talk therapy
they block the reabsorption of serotonin
All of the other statements are true.
they are often used to treat mood disorders
they are often used to treat depression
they are never combined with cognitive talk therapy
SSRIs CAN be, and are often, combined with cognitive talk therapy. In fact, it would be quite rare for a person to be prescribed anti-depressants without some element of talk therapy being used as a part of their course of treatment.
Example Question #4 : Other Treatment Principles
What does it mean when a person develops a "tolerance" to a drug?
They experience different effects from the same dosage of the drug due to changes in neurotransmitter reactivity.
They can be more easily convinced to take the drug.
They undergo a physiological change, which requires more of the drug to produce the same effects as a smaller dose used to.
They can begin to take other drugs without experiencing overlapping side effects.
They undergo a physiological change, which requires more of the drug to produce the same effects as a smaller dose used to.
Though the amount of drug they must take increases, the types of effects of the drug are the same. Tolerance can eventually lead to withdrawal symptoms if the drug is not taken.
Example Question #5 : Other Treatment Principles
Which of the following is a reason why people do not seek treatment for psychological disorders?
The potentially high financial cost of treatment
All of these answers are correct.
Lack of awareness that they need treatment
Social stigma surrounding therapy and treatment
Uncertainty about where to start or where to search for services
All of these answers are correct.
There are many reasons why people may resist or not seek out treatment for a psychological disorder. Social stigma surrounds psychological disorders and their treatment; someone might be afraid of seeming "crazy" if he or she seeks treatment. In addition, some disorders, particularly personality disorders, are characterized by a lack of awareness, so people who have them might not realize they need help. Lastly, people might be overwhelmed at the thought of how/where to start treatment and worried that therapy and medication will be too costly.
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