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APP Unit 13 Examples

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show Psychological disorders that researchers believe and learned, such as phobias are most likely treated with psychotherapy.  
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show Schizophrenia is most likely treated with biomedical therapies.  
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show A therapist that uses operant conditioning while encouraging a patient to modify his thought process.  
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show Mr. Choi’s therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelings of love and hate to his parents.  
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Free Association (Example)   show
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show During psychotherapy, you begin to stutter whenever you begin to discuss personally sensitive thoughts.  
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Psychodynamic Therapy (Example)   show
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Example)   show
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show Instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, humanistic therapies seek to promote growth and self-fullfilment.  
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Active Listening (Example)   show
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show During a marriage counselling session, the therapist suggests to Mr. and Mrs. Gallo that they each restate their spouse’s comments before making their own.  
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Behaviour Therapy (Example)   show
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show In one treatment for bed-wetting, the child sleeps on a liquid-sensitive pad that when wet triggers an alarm and awakens the child.  
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Counterconditioning (Example)   show
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show In 1924, Mary Jones reported that 3-year-old Peter lost his fear of rabbits when a rabbit was repeatedly presented while Peter was eating a tasty snack. Joseph Wolpe refined Jones' counterconditioning technique and developed systematic desensitization.  
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Systematic Desensitization (Example)   show
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Aversive Conditioning (Example)   show
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Behaviour Modification (Example)   show
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show A token economy is helpful for encouraging adults with intellectual disability to make their beds every morning.  
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Cognitive Therapies (Example)   show
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show Natasha claimed that her failure to get A’s in all her courses meant she was incompetent. Her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of students are incompetent!”  
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show Dylan is a second-year undergraduate who feels so incompetent that he believes his life is worthless and hopeless. He would benefit from Beck’s cognitive therapy.  
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Stress Inoculation Training (Example)   show
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show In one study, people were taught to attribute their compulsive urges to abnormal brain functioning. Instead of giving into an urge, they participated in an alternative activity that engaged other parts of the brain.  
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show Many self-help groups have emulated the use of a 12-step program by Alcoholics Anonymous.  
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Family Therapy (Example)   show
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show In an experiment potentially delinquent boys were assigned to a 5 year treatment program that included counseling and family assistance. Later, McCord’s investigation of this program’s effectiveness revealed that clients’ accounts of the program’s effe  
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Regression Toward the Mean (Example)   show
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show After performing a meta-analysis of some 475 psychotherapy outcome studies, Smith et. al reported in 1980 that evidence supports the efficacy of psychotherapy.  
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show Because Gretchen is afraid of contracting infectious diseases, she compulsively avoids shaking people’s hands or touching doorknobs. Research suggests that an effective treatment would be behaviour therapy  
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show Kammy vividly imagines being abused by her partner while her therapist triggers eye movements by waving a finger in front of Kammy’s eyes.  
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Culture and Psychotherapy (Example)   show
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show Bolstering parents’ and teachers’ skills at nurturing children’s achievement and resulting self-esteem best illustrates preventative mental health.  
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show Dr. Volz is a researcher who wants to distinguish between the direct effects of a new antianxiety medication and effects arising from expectations of the drug’s effectiveness.  
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show Newer, atypical antipsychotics, such as Clorazil, target both dopamine and serotonin receptors.  
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Psychosurgery (Example)   show
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