Proctored exam for 2024/2025
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, What is the definition of mental health - ✔✔✔A state of wellbeing in which the
individual is able to make contribution to society, realize their potential, cope with life, and
work productively.
What are attributes of a mentally healthy person - ✔✔✔Rational thinking, effective
coping skills, resiliency, self-control, self-awareness, self-care, meaningful relationships,
communication skills, positive self-concept, ability to learn, spiritual satisfaction, happiness
and joy.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy - ✔✔✔Uses dream analysis, free association,
transference and countertransference in following the psychoanalysis model. However,
therapist has greater involvement and interacts more freely. Focus on the here and now.
Interpersonal psychotherapy. - ✔✔✔Effective short-term therapy. Goal is to reduce or
eliminate psychiatric symptoms by improving interpersonal functioning and satisfaction in
social relationships.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy - ✔✔✔An evidence-based therapeutic modality for
children, adolescents, and adults that seeks to identify negative and irrational patterns of
thought and challenge them based on rational evidence and thoughts.
Modeling - ✔✔✔Therapist provides a role model for specific identifies behaviors, and the
pt learns through imitation of the therapist or of a video.
Systematic desensitization - ✔✔✔Another form of behavior modification therapy that
involves the development of behavior tasks customized to the pt's specific fears
Aversion therapy - ✔✔✔Used widely to treat behaviors. Present a negative stimuli along
with the addicted stimuli to reduce urge. Put a vomiting agent into an alcoholics drink so
they think vomit with alcohol.
Automatic thoughts - ✔✔✔Rapid unthinking responses based on schemas. Particularly
frequent and intense in depression and anxiety.
Cognitive distortions - ✔✔✔Irrational thoughts that lead to false assumptions and
misinterpretations. "Unless I get straight A's I'm a failure"
Behavior therapy - ✔✔✔A treatment method that is concerned with patterns of behavior
rather than inner motivations. Maladaptive responses are replaced with adaptive
responses.
Biofeedback - ✔✔✔A technique for gaining conscious control over unconscious body
functions, such as BP and HR. Feedback obtained by sensitive instruments can provide
information on body function, and individuals can learn to monitor and control responses
(anxiety/stress)
Conditioning - ✔✔✔Involves pairing a behavior with a condition that reinforces or
diminishes that behavior