Which of the following therapies is more concerned with removing specific troubling symptoms than with providing special insights into the personality of the client?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following therapies are mainly intended to eliminate symptoms rather than alter personality?

   A. behavior and drug therapies
   B. psychoanalysis and client-centered therapy
   C. psychoanalysis and drug therapies
   D. cognitive and psychoanalytic therapies

2. Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
   1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
   2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
   3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
   4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.

   A. 1 & 4
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

3. Mr.Gotanda mistakenly believed that a single intake interview in which he simply described his numerous symptoms to a therapist was a treatment for his distress. His immediate relief from many of his symptoms following this session best illustrates:

   A. transference.
   B. counterconditioning.
   C. unconditional positive regard.
   D. the placebo effect

4. We know that a distinction is made between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. What is the difference between these symptoms?

   A. Negative symptoms indicate the presence of something normal, and positive symptoms indicate the absence of something usual.
   B. Positive symptoms indicate the presence of some thing normal, the absence of something usual.
   C. Negative symptoms indicate the presence of something unusual, and positive symptoms indicate the absence of something normal.
   D. Positive symptoms indicate the presence of something unusual, and negative symptoms indicate the absence of something normal.

5. The symptoms of_______are likely to appear at an earlier age than the symptoms of__________?

   A. antisocial personality; schizophrenia
   B. major depression; alcohol abuse
   C. schizophrenia; obsessive-compulsive disorder
   D. obsessive-compulsive disorder,phobias

6. Symptoms of major depressive disorder might include:
   1: Specific phobias.
   2: Losing interest or pleasure in things that you usually enjoy.
   3: Changes in appetite.
   4: An excessively euphoric mood.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 3 & 4
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 1 & 4

7. All of the following are behavior therapies EXCEPT

   A. Exposure therapies
   B. Systematic desensitization
   C. Dream analysis
   D. Aversion therapy

8. All of the following are biomedical therapies EXCEPT

   A. Drug therapy
   B. Hypnosis
   C. Psychosurgery
   D. Electroconvulsive therapy

9. All of the following are drug therapies for mental illness EXCEPT:

   A. Anitmanics
   B. Antidepressants
   C. Antihistamines
   D. Antipsychotics

10. All of the following are goals of the major therapies EXCEPT:

    A. Effecting a leasting cure
    B. Reaching a diagnosis
    C. Making a prognosis
    D. Proposing an etiology