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Related Mcqs:

1. Anti-psychotics can have some potent side-effects. But which of the following is NOT a major side-effect act these drugs?

   A. Tradive dyskinesia
   B. Blurred vision
   C. Diarrheas
   D. Rabbit syndrome

2. 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

3. 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

4. Demonstrating unconditional positive regard toward patients is a critical component for which type of therapy?

   A. Family therapy
   B. Rational-emotive therapy
   C. Client-centered therapy
   D. Gestalt therapy

5. What are possible reasons given to explain why 5-10% of patients deteriorate after ending psychotherapy?

   A. Poor therapist – client relationship
   B. Therapist incompetence
   C. Therapy disrupts stable pattern of functioning
   D. Therapy does not offer clients alternative cooping mechanisms
   E. All of the above

6. 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

7. 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’.

8. Which TWO of 1: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific moods.
   2: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific situations.
   3: In collaborative empiricism, the therapist formulates a hypothesis and then tests its validity himself.
   4: In collaborative empiricism, the client is asked to formulate a hypothesis and than helps the therapist to
   test its validity.the following definitions key features of Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy are accurate?

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

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