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Question 81

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About a dozen young women with eating disorders meet together on a weekly basis to share their experiences and encourage one another in their efforts to cope effectively.The benefits they receive from this interaction best illustrate the value of

A) free association.
B) a token economy.
C) self-help groups.
D) virtual reality exposure therapy.

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Question 82

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Which of the following is the best description of behavior modification?

A) People are helped to identify a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences.
B) People's actions are influenced by controlling the consequences of those actions.
C) What a client says during the course of therapy is repeated or rephrased.
D) Attention is focused on patients' positive and negative feelings toward their therapists.

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Question 83

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Unpleasant withdrawal symptoms following the discontinued use of an antianxiety drug are indicative of

Double-blind studies enable researchers to assess the extent to which the effectiveness of a drug is attributable to

Which of the following is most likely to contribute to inflated perceptions of the effectiveness of alternative therapies such as herbal medicine?

Three benefits attributed to all psychotherapies are

The biomedical treatment most widely used today is

The expression toward a therapist of feelings linked with earlier relationships is known as

Psychodynamic therapy techniques involve efforts to understand patients' current symptoms by focusing on recurring patterns in their

Therapists practice ________ by using positive reinforcers to reward closer and closer approximations of a desired behavior.

Which counterconditioning technique is especially helpful when it would be too expensive or too embarrassing for a person to directly confront an anxiety-arousing situation?

The value of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is in part due to the effectiveness of

Clients often benefit from psychotherapy because it provides them with an explanation for their symptoms and frees them from false beliefs.This best illustrates the therapeutic value of

Light exposure therapy was developed to relieve symptoms of

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is designed to

Which form of therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them how to resolve disagreements with their friends?

Aversive conditioning involves

Which form of therapy has been found to be especially effective in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder?

In one study,people were taught to attribute their compulsive urges to abnormal brain functioning.Instead of giving in to an urge,they participated in an alternative activity that engaged other parts of the brain.This strategy for dealing with their difficulty best illustrates

Antianxiety drugs are most likely to be used in combination with exposure therapy to treat