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- How do client, therapist, and treatment techniques combine in the process of therapy?
- What is the major therapeutic goal in psychoanalysis?
- Describe the roles of free association, dream analysis, resistance, transference, and interpretation in psychoanalysis.
- How do brief psychodynamic and interpersonal therapies differ from classical psychoanalysis? Which research results support their use?
- How does the goal of humanistic therapies differ from that of psychodynamic therapies?
- What three therapist attributes did Rogers find to be crucial to therapeutic success?
- What is the goal of Gestalt therapy?
- How is the ABCD model used in rational–emotive therapy? Which disorders respond well to Beck's cognitive therapy?
- Which classical and operant conditioning principles underlie exposure therapy? What problems is it applied to?
- How does systematic desensitization differ from exposure in terms of its underlying principle and techniques?
- Which learning principles underlie aversion therapy? What are its limitations, and how can its effects be enhanced?
- How are positive reinforcement and punishment used therapeutically? What evidence exists for their effectiveness?
- What is the rationale for behavioral activation therapy?
- How is modeling used in social skills training? How is self–efficacy involved in its effectiveness?
- How is mindfulness training being utilized in MBSR, MDRP, ACT, and DBT?
- What principles underlie family and marital therapy? What is the importance of acceptance in marital therapy?
- What barriers to therapy exist for ethnic minorities? What characteristics are found in culturally competent and gender–sensitive therapists?
- What is the specificity question in psychotherapy research? How did Eysenck challenge beliefs about therapeutic effectiveness?
- What is tardive dyskinesia, and what causes it?
- How do antianxiety drugs work, and how effective are they? Do they have any drawbacks?
- How do antidepressant drugs achieve their effects? What concerns have been raised about them?
- Which disorders do and do not respond favorably to ECT and psychosurgery? What are their drawbacks?
- Describe randomized clinical trials with regard to design, treatment standardization, measures of improvement, and follow–up.
- What have meta–analyses shown about the effectiveness of therapies?
- What client, therapist, technique, and common factors influence treatment outcome?
- What were the major findings of the CR survey? On what bases can Seligman's conclusions be challenged?
- What is the rationale for deinstitutionalization? What prevents the achievement of its goals?
- What therapeutic issues exist in managed–care environments?
- Describe two major approaches to prevention, and provide an example of each.
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