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Question 131

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Cognitive therapists are most likely to

A) focus special attention on clients' positive and negative feelings about their therapists.
B) employ personality tests to accurately diagnose their clients' difficulties.
C) emphasize the importance of clients' personal interpretations of life events.
D) systematically associate clients' undesirable behaviors with unpleasant

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Question 132

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Therapists' perceptions of the effectiveness of psychotherapy are likely to be misleading because

A) therapists typically minimize the seriousness of their clients' symptoms when therapy begins.
B) clients typically emphasize their problems at the start of therapy and their well-
Being at the end of therapy.
C) clients tend to focus on their observable behavioral problems rather than on their mental and emotional abilities.
D) therapists typically overestimate their clients' potential levels of adjustment.

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Question 133

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In which of the following does the client learn to associate a relaxed state with a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing situations?

Depakote, a drug originally used to treat epilepsy, more recently has been found to be effective in the control of

Systematic desensitization is based on the idea that ________ facilitates the elimination of fear.

Helping people gain insight into the unconscious origins of their disorder is a central aim of

Freud's techniques and assumptions are most evident in today's

Restating and clarifying what another person says is central to

Which of the following is NOT a common criticism of behavior therapy?

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation shows greatest promise for the treatment of

One reason that aversive conditioning may only be temporarily effective is that

In a home for troubled youth, adolescents receive large colored buttons when they hang up their clothes, make their beds, and come to meals on time. The adolescents return the buttons to staff members to receive bedtime snacks or watch TV. This best illustrates an application of

Psychopharmacology involves the study of how

Carl Rogers referred to a caring, nonjudgmental attitude as

Which form of therapy is most likely to be described as expensive and time- consuming?

Which of the following factors is NOT a therapeutically effective component of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing?

Mr. Phillips has recently begun to express feelings of hostility and resentment toward his therapist, who is consistently friendly, caring, and helpful. A psychoanalyst would most likely consider Mr. Phillips's hostility to be an example of

The interpretation of dreams is most closely associated with

It has been suggested that the effectiveness of ________ results from energizing the left frontal lobe of the brain.

During a marriage counseling session, the therapist suggests to Mr. and Mrs. Gallo that they each restate their spouse's comments before making their own. The therapist was applying a technique most closely associated with