Name That Therapy

The distinctions between the different kinds of psychotherapy that you have learned about this term are sometimes obvious and sometimes subtle. The goal of this exercise is to help you learn the key features of all of the different approaches to the treatment of psychological disorders that you have studied this term. Simply complete the following sentences by writing in the name of the therapy that each describes.

Different Forms of Psychotherapy:
  • Aversion Therapy
  • Behavior Modification
  • Client-Centered Therapy
  • Covert Sensitization
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Rational Emotive Therapy
  • Systematic Desensitization

Complete the following sentences using the terms given above.

1. One of the main goals of is to provide the client insight into his or her unconscious motivations and desires.

2. In the therapist allows the client to direct the course of the session.

3. focuses almost exclusively on present experiences and on "getting in touch" with one's feelings that have been hidden from awareness.

4. Suppose that you are in therapy for a phobic disorder. The therapist tells you that she is going to help you learn how to relax in the face of increasingly fearful stimuli related to your phobia. The type of therapy you are undergoing is called .

5. The focus of is to train the client to learn a negative or unpleasant response to a stimulus associated with his or her undesired behavior.

6. is a general term that refers to therapy based on operant conditioning.

7. In the client is trained to imagine the negative consequences of his or her undesirable behavior.

8. Suppose on your first day of therapy that your therapist informs you that his philosophy of treating psychological disorders centers not on problematic events in his client's life, but on how his clients interpret them. Your therapist most likely practices .

9. involves the treatment of mental disorders using chemical agents.

10. As a last resort, severe major depression is often treated with .