NSG 6440 Practice Test /
PsychoTherapeutics Questions With
Complete Solutions
Chapter Overview - correct answer...✔✔- Major types of psychotherapy include
psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavior, cognitive, and individual, group, and family
psychotherapy.
Issues in psychotherapy include culture, gender, values, effective factors and types, and
the evaluation of psychotherapy effectiveness.
We'll also look at biomedical therapies such as drugs, brain stimulation, surgery, and
lifestyle change.
-Finally, we'll briefly consider the prevention of psychological disorders.
Therapy - correct answer...✔✔Therapy refers to how mental disorders are treated, with
the help of the knowledge base of psychology.
Current Forms of Therapy - correct answer...✔✔Psychotherapy:
an interactive experience with a trained professional, working on understanding and
changing behavior, thinking, relationships, and emotions
Combining Therapies - correct answer...✔✔Biomedical therapy:
the use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to reduce the
symptoms of mental disorders
Combining Therapies - correct answer...✔✔-An eclectic approach uses techniques
from various forms of therapy to fit the client's problems, strengths, and preferences.
Combining Therapies - correct answer...✔✔Medications and psychotherapy can be
used together, and may help the each other achieve better reduction in symptoms
Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔Psychoanalysis,
psychodynamic therapy
_ Sigmund Freud's legacy carried on today.
Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔- Humanistic, client-
centered therapy
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔- Behavior therapy, using
classical operant conditioning
_ B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov applied to people.
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, Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔- Cognitive thereapy,
changing thoughts
Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, reducing errors and distress
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔- The first formal psychotherapy to emerge was
psychoanalysis, developed by Sigmund Freud.
- Sigmund Freud's famous couch
Psychoanalysis: Aims - correct answer...✔✔- Since psychological problems originate
from childhood repressed impulses and conflicts, the aim of psychoanalysis is to bring
repressed feelings into conscious awareness where the patient can deal with them.
- When energy devoted to id-ego-superego conflicts is released, the patient's anxiety
lessens
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔Resistance:
the therapist notices times when the patient seems blocked in speaking about certain
subjects
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔Dreams:
there may be themes or "latent content" behind the plot of a patient's dream
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔Transference:
the patient may have reactions toward the therapist that are actually based on feelings
toward someone from the past
Psychoanalysis: Criticisms - correct answer...✔✔1. Psychoanalysis is hard to refute
because it cannot be proven or disproven.
2.Psychoanalysis takes a long time and is very expensive.
Psychodynamic Therapy - correct answer...✔✔- Influenced by Freud, in a face-to-face
setting, psychodynamic therapists understand symptoms and themes across important
relationships in a patient's life.
- Interpersonal psychotherapy, a variation of psychodynamic therapy, is effective in
treating depression. It focuses on symptom relief here and now, not an overall
personality change.
Humanistic Therapies - correct answer...✔✔- Humanistic therapists aim to boost self-
fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance.
A GRADESOLUTIONS
PsychoTherapeutics Questions With
Complete Solutions
Chapter Overview - correct answer...✔✔- Major types of psychotherapy include
psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavior, cognitive, and individual, group, and family
psychotherapy.
Issues in psychotherapy include culture, gender, values, effective factors and types, and
the evaluation of psychotherapy effectiveness.
We'll also look at biomedical therapies such as drugs, brain stimulation, surgery, and
lifestyle change.
-Finally, we'll briefly consider the prevention of psychological disorders.
Therapy - correct answer...✔✔Therapy refers to how mental disorders are treated, with
the help of the knowledge base of psychology.
Current Forms of Therapy - correct answer...✔✔Psychotherapy:
an interactive experience with a trained professional, working on understanding and
changing behavior, thinking, relationships, and emotions
Combining Therapies - correct answer...✔✔Biomedical therapy:
the use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to reduce the
symptoms of mental disorders
Combining Therapies - correct answer...✔✔-An eclectic approach uses techniques
from various forms of therapy to fit the client's problems, strengths, and preferences.
Combining Therapies - correct answer...✔✔Medications and psychotherapy can be
used together, and may help the each other achieve better reduction in symptoms
Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔Psychoanalysis,
psychodynamic therapy
_ Sigmund Freud's legacy carried on today.
Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔- Humanistic, client-
centered therapy
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔- Behavior therapy, using
classical operant conditioning
_ B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov applied to people.
A GRADESOLUTIONS
, Noteworthy Schools of Psychotherapy - correct answer...✔✔- Cognitive thereapy,
changing thoughts
Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, reducing errors and distress
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔- The first formal psychotherapy to emerge was
psychoanalysis, developed by Sigmund Freud.
- Sigmund Freud's famous couch
Psychoanalysis: Aims - correct answer...✔✔- Since psychological problems originate
from childhood repressed impulses and conflicts, the aim of psychoanalysis is to bring
repressed feelings into conscious awareness where the patient can deal with them.
- When energy devoted to id-ego-superego conflicts is released, the patient's anxiety
lessens
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔Resistance:
the therapist notices times when the patient seems blocked in speaking about certain
subjects
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔Dreams:
there may be themes or "latent content" behind the plot of a patient's dream
Psychoanalysis - correct answer...✔✔Transference:
the patient may have reactions toward the therapist that are actually based on feelings
toward someone from the past
Psychoanalysis: Criticisms - correct answer...✔✔1. Psychoanalysis is hard to refute
because it cannot be proven or disproven.
2.Psychoanalysis takes a long time and is very expensive.
Psychodynamic Therapy - correct answer...✔✔- Influenced by Freud, in a face-to-face
setting, psychodynamic therapists understand symptoms and themes across important
relationships in a patient's life.
- Interpersonal psychotherapy, a variation of psychodynamic therapy, is effective in
treating depression. It focuses on symptom relief here and now, not an overall
personality change.
Humanistic Therapies - correct answer...✔✔- Humanistic therapists aim to boost self-
fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance.
A GRADESOLUTIONS
