Psychology: A Self-Teaching Guide

Abnormal Psychology: Exploring Mental Disorders 229 axis biogenetic disorder biological viewpoint bipolar disorder catatonic typ ...

230 PSYCHOLOGY social phobia sociocultural viewpoint somatization disorder somatoform disorders specific phobias superior person ...

15 Therapy: Helping Troubled People 231 PREVIEW QUIZ True or False TFThe literal meaning of the term psychotherapyis “healing o ...

suffering. This chapter presents ways in which therapy—both psychological and biological—can help troubled people cope with life ...

orders are caused by actual pathology of the brain and nervous system. These ther- apies recognize that the suffering individual ...

scious meaning. For example, a wife says to her husband, just before retiring to bed, “I want to kill you.” The husband is taken ...

patient is trying to become autonomous and less dependent on the therapist. In both of the above kinds of transference, the ther ...

employs a number of well-defined techniques and principles. Five of these will be identified below. First, the therapy should be ...

(b) High-quality verbal feedback is called listening. (c) What exists when a therapist can readily imagine what it would be like ...

(c) In systematic desensitization, word pictures that induce anxiety are called fantasies. Answers: (a) learned; (b) extinction; ...

REBT teaches patients an A-B-C-D systemof emotional self-control. For example, Patrick is prone to chronic anxiety. He is drivin ...

the approaches have their use and place in the treatment of troubled people. In multi-modal therapy, the specific kind of therap ...

(a) In group therapy, the therapist acts as a , an individual who mediates between members of the group, allows everyone a chanc ...

One of the ways in which some of the antianxiety agents work is by induc- ing muscle relaxation. Such relaxation has been found ...

doctors. Clinical psychologists have doctoral degrees in psychology, not medicine. Consequently, in most states they cannot pres ...

Behavior modification is based on a. biological assumptions b. principles of operant conditioning c. Freudian theory d. the rec ...

ANSWERS TO THE TRUE-OR-FALSE PREVIEW QUIZ True. False. The main way that Freud explored the unconscious roots of mental-emotion ...

246 PSYCHOLOGY positive transference post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) psychodynamic therapy psychologically based therapies ...

16 Social Psychology: Interacting with Other People 247 PREVIEW QUIZ True or False TFSocial psychology is the systematic study ...

this chapter, recognizes the importance that others play in determining our behavior. Objectives After completing this chapter, ...