What are the primary limitations of drug therapy to treat psychological disorders?

Related Mcqs:

1. Although it is generally recommended to begin with psychotherapy first to treat psychological disorders,for which group of patients would it be most beneficial to begin with drug treatments instead of psychotheraputic treatments?

   A. Drug abusers
   B. Suiciidal
   C. Depressed
   D. Psychotic
   E. b and d

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. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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’.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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