Used in conjunction with medication and other therapies, ECT remains an option for the treatment of mood disorders. What dose ECT stand for?

Related Mcqs:

1. Saima took some new medication for her hay fever. The medication made her heart start to race, and she became agitated and jittery. it is likely that the medication is increasing the activity in samis’s

   A. corpus callosum
   B. sympathetic nervous system
   C. somatic nervous system
   D. cerebellum

2. 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

3. Suicidal thoughts are often a symptom of depression CBT, used in conjunction with medication, has been proven effective in training depression. What does CBT stand for?

   A. Cognitive behavioural therapy
   B. Computerized brain tomography
   C. Complete behavioural therapy
   D. Comprehensive brain therapy

4. Mood disorders are those in which the personality may:

   A. experience serve depression and threaten suicide
   B. exhibit symptoms suggesting physical disease or injury but for which there is no identifiable cause
   C. exhibit behavior that is the result of an organic brain pathology
   D. experience delusions and hallucinations

5. Besides medication, what is the preferred treatment of OCD called?

   A. Cognitive behavior therapy
   B. Electric shock therapy
   C. Talk therapy
   D. Anxiety reducing therapy

6. Behavior therapies appear to be particularly effective in the treatment of

   A. panic disorder
   B. phobias
   C. antisocial personality disorder
   D. major depression

7. The MOST accurate statement about why ECT works to the degree that it does is that:

   A. no one is really certain why it works
   B. it acts as a form of aversion therapy
   C. it alters neural circuits in the brain
   D. it performs strong operant condition techniques

8. Psychopharmacotherapy involves the treatment of mental disorders with_________?

   A. electroconvulsive shock
   B. insight therapy
   C. surgery
   D. medication

9. 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

10. Psychopharmacotherapy involves the treatment of mental disorders with:

    A. electroconvulsive shock
    B. insight therapy
    C. surgery
    D. medication