A very controversial treatment for severe depression is: _____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of psychotherapy has been shown to significantly decrease the relapse rate of patients with depression when administered after successful drug treatment?

   A. Cognitive-behavioral therapy
   B. Psychoanalysis
   C. Behavioural therapy
   D. Humanistic therapy

2. Until the late eighteenth century, people suffering from a psychological disorders were thought to be possessed by demons or evil spirits. Treatment was designed to alter the body in order to let out the spirits or make it an inhospitable habitat for them,and among the earliest of these was a technique in which part of the skull bone was removed to allow evil spirits out.But what was this technique called?

   A. Ice pick lobotomy
   B. Trepanning
   C. Prefrontal lobotomy
   D. Bloodletting

3. Free association interpretation and analysis of transference are treatment techniques in which model of psychotherapy?

   A. Humanistic
   B. Psychoanalytic
   C. Cognitive
   D. Behavioral

4. What are the two major approaches to treatment of psychological disorders?
   1: Biological.
   2: Medical.
   3: Chemical.
   4: Psychological

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

5. Which of the following is not a form of psychotherapy used to treat psychological disorders?

   A. Cognitive therapy
   B. Pharmacotherapy
   C. Humanistic therapy
   D. Behavioral therapy

6. Why is the difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic treatments?

   A. Self-selection into therapy leads to biased samples
   B. Creating true control groups for comparison
   C. The number of possible treatment-disorder combinations to assess
   D. Most patients do not give consent to participate in research
   E. a,b and c

7. Is psychotherapy effective?

   A. Yes, definitely
   B. Generally yes, but there are still some concerns
   C. Generally no, but there are some exceptions
   D. No, not at all

8. Which is true? Behavioural therapy

   A. Is a mechanistic, impersonal procedure
   B. Combines psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinking.
   C. Is a concerned with what the person does that causes distress.
   D. Focuses on early experiences rather than the ‘here and now’.

9. Which of the following criticisms of family and couples therapies are valid?
   1: These treatments are not as effective as most individual treatments for problems relating to family or relationship conflict.
   2: The attraction of these therapies may reflect little more than the charisma of those who developed them.
   3: Bona fide treatments only produce beneficial outcomes for a minority of cases in 20 sessions or fewer.
   4: These has been a relative lack of research on many of these therapies.

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

10. In client-centered therapy, the importance of affirming the worth of the client is achieved by the exercise of which THREE therapeutic attitudes?
    1: Unconditional positive regard.
    2: Empathy.
    3: Genuineness.
    4: Confrontation.

    A. 1,2 & 3
    B. 2,3 & 4
    C. 1,3 & 4
    D. None of These