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Which two broad types of therapy are named?Read the answer and worked solution →Psychotherapy is defined as a psychological treatment employing methods to help someone:Read the answer and worked solution →Biomedical therapy is described as involving medication and/or:Read the answer and worked solution →Freud believed psychoanalysis would help uncover feelings that were:Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of Freudian methods might a psychoanalyst use?Read the answer and worked solution →Play therapy is often used with children because they are not likely to:Read the answer and worked solution →Counterconditioning is a technique in which a client learns a new response to a stimulus that previously:Read the answer and worked solution →Which two techniques are named as counterconditioning techniques?Read the answer and worked solution →Joseph Wolpe refined earlier techniques thirty years later, giving us:Read the answer and worked solution →Which popular operant conditioning intervention is named?Read the answer and worked solution →Cognitive therapy focuses on how a person's thoughts lead to feelings of:Read the answer and worked solution →Cognitive-behavioral therapists focus much more on present issues than on a patient's:Read the answer and worked solution →Cognitive-behavioral therapy examines maladaptive automatic thoughts and:Read the answer and worked solution →Carl Rogers developed a therapeutic orientation known as client-centered or:Read the answer and worked solution →Unconditional positive regard, as Rogers used it, involves not judging clients and:Read the answer and worked solution →Deinstitutionalization is described as the closing of:Read the answer and worked solution →Group treatment is described as having which advantage over individual, couples or family therapy?Read the answer and worked solution →A therapist treating a phobia by gradually pairing relaxation with the feared object is using:Read the answer and worked solution →Match each therapy to its ideaRead the answer and worked solution →Tap what belongs to each approachRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: therapyRead the answer and worked solution →Stop on the right therapyRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the therapy namesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Which two broad types of therapy are named?

  1. Psychotherapy and biomedical
  2. Physical and chemical
  3. Private and public forms
  4. Early and late stage
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Correct answer: A. Psychotherapy and biomedical

1. Treatment for psychological disorders divides in two. 2. Two types of therapy are named. 3. They are psychotherapy and biomedical therapy. 4. The two differ in whether medication or medical procedures are involved. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 16 'Therapy and Treatment', sections 16.1-16.4_

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Psychotherapy is defined as a psychological treatment employing methods to help someone:

  1. Change their eye colour
  2. Overcome personal problems
  3. Increase muscular strength
  4. Improve financial planning
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Correct answer: B. Overcome personal problems

1. Psychotherapy has a stated purpose. 2. Psychotherapy is a psychological treatment that employs various methods. 3. Those methods help someone overcome personal problems. 4. They may also help someone attain personal growth. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 16 'Therapy and Treatment', sections 16.1-16.4_

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Biomedical therapy is described as involving medication and/or:

  1. Medical procedures
  2. Dream analysis
  3. Free association
  4. Group discussion
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Correct answer: A. Medical procedures

1. Biomedical therapy works on the body rather than through talk. 2. Two types of therapy are psychotherapy and biomedical therapy. 3. Biomedical therapy involves medication and medical procedures. 4. It uses them to treat psychological disorders. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 16 'Therapy and Treatment', sections 16.1-16.4_

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