Research on the prognosis for recovering from schizophrenia suggests that:

The primary goal of _______ is to find meaning in life and accept inevitable losses.

After surviving a commuter train derailment, John experienced frequent, vivid thoughts and images of the accident for several months. He also had problems sleeping and was irritable and withdrawn. John is suffering from:

________ refers to the fear of heights.

The biological and learning models of addiction differ in their explanations of drug abuse and in their proposed solutions. According to the biological model:

Ryan suffers from schizophrenia. He often mixes up words and ends up talking about things that make no sense. Which symptom of schizophrenia is Ryan exhibiting?

Which of the following statements is true of schizophrenia with regard to prenatal problems?

When a patient comes in complaining of a headache, the therapist views the headache as the tip of a mental iceberg, with the real problem hidden in the deep unconscious. Which type of therapy would this represent?

Yani has spent the last five years receiving traditional psychoanalysis. How is the concept of "justification of effort" likely to affect his response when his friend asks Yani whether he would recommend this type of therapy?

Georgina's treatment for bulimia and binge eating has been highly successful. It is most likely that her treatment involved a combination of:

________ is a procedure used in cases of prolonged and severe major depression, in which a brief brain seizure is induced.

The vulnerability–stress model describes:

________ is the process in which the client transfers unconscious emotions or reactions, such as emotional feelings about his or her parents, onto the therapist.

People who drink in order to ________ have significantly more drinking problems than those who drink for other reasons.

One immediate side effect of antipsychotic drugs is:

After a long period of controlled trials, the FDA approves a drug for the treatment of school-aged boys with ADHD. After it is approved, doctors are permitted to prescribe it:

Antipsychotic drugs are also known as

People suffering from bipolar disorder often are helped by taking ________, but they must be very careful with the dose they take, because too much can be toxic.

Sheldon is asked to report what he sees in a series of cards presented with symmetrical abstract patterns. It is likely that Sheldon is being given:

Cognitive therapy's greatest success has been in the treatment of:

According to Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, the term schizophrenia describes cases in which

Which of the following drugs is a first-generation neuroleptic drug?

The therapeutic approach developed by Albert Ellis, known as ________, is a form of cognitive therapy.

Joshua is transferred to an office located on the tenth floor of a building. The problem is that he fears heights so much that he never goes above the third floor in any building. His therapist teaches him to relax deeply while imagining himself looking out over a balcony. As therapy progresses, Joshua imagines himself on higher and higher floors. This technique is called:

A nineteenth century physician's diagnosis of drapetomania, which purported to explain why slaves sought freedom, exemplifies:

________ are highly successful in helping people cope with pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, headaches, or irritable bowel syndrome

The ________ school of therapy has, as one of its primary goals, self-acceptance and self-fulfillment for a client.

The ________ school of therapy's primary goal is to help the client achieve insight into unconscious motives and feelings and a change in their symptoms

Psychological scientists who are skeptical about multiple personality disorder provide several reasons for their stance. Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?

Which of the following would likely be the most useful in reducing a patient's agitation, delusions, and hallucinations?

Who would likely benefit most from taking lithium carbonate?

Which of the behavioral therapy techniques requires clients to keep careful data on the frequency and the consequences of the behavior to be changed?

Kellie is fearful in situations where she must eat in public or write in the presence of others. She is worried that she might say or do something embarrassing. Kellie is exhibiting the symptoms of:

Therapeutic influence, and sometimes coercion, is believed to be responsible for the huge number of people diagnosed in the 1980s and 1990s with:

At this time, _________________ explanations and treatments for mental disorders are dominant.

Don's therapist has directed him to document on a daily basis the times, places, and conditions under which he goes to smoke a cigarette. Don discovers that he often ends up smoking outside his office building with his boss and enjoys the chance to chat with her. The therapist explains to Don that these conversations are:

According to psychological scientists, "dissociative amnesia":

A recent survey (discussed in your textbook) found that the majority of the psychotherapists surveyed listed this therapist as the most influential on their practice

In ________, episodes of both depression and mania occur.

A form of therapy that applies principles of classical and operant conditioning to help people change self-defeating or problematic behaviors is called __________ therapy.