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Treatment of Psychological Disorders — HS Psychology practice questions

12 multiple-choice questions and 11 flashcards on Treatment of Psychological Disorders, about 8% of the HS Psychology bank. Every one carries a written rationale.

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What this chapter covers

Treatment of Psychological Disorders is one of 13 chapters in CoStudy's HS Psychology bank, and it holds 12 of the bank's 150 multiple-choice questions — roughly 8% of the total. That proportion is not arbitrary: chapters follow the certifying body's published exam outline, and the number of questions in each is set by that domain's published weight, so the share of your practice time this chapter takes matches the share of the real exam it accounts for.

Studying by chapter is worth doing once you have a diagnostic score. A single overall percentage tells you whether you are close; it does not tell you which domain is dragging. Working a weak chapter in isolation, and re-testing it in isolation, is the fastest way to move a score that has stalled — and it is why the mock exams in CoStudy report by domain rather than as one number.

Free Treatment of Psychological Disorders practice questions

3 questions drawn from this chapter, with the full rationale shown — the controlling principle behind the right answer, and why each wrong option tempts and fails.

Psychoanalysis tries to help patients by:

  1. changing behavior with rewards
  2. correcting distorted thoughts
  3. prescribing medication
  4. bringing unconscious conflicts into awareness

Answer: D — bringing unconscious conflicts into awareness

D) Correct — Free association and dream analysis aim to uncover hidden conflicts. A) Is behavior therapy. B) Is cognitive therapy. C) Is biomedical treatment.

Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy for depression focuses on:

  1. reliving childhood trauma
  2. unconditional acceptance alone
  3. challenging automatic negative thoughts
  4. rewarding activity without discussing thoughts

Answer: C — challenging automatic negative thoughts

C) Correct — Patients learn to spot and test distorted thoughts like "I always fail." A) Is closer to psychodynamic therapy. B) Is client-centered therapy. D) Is purely behavioral treatment.

Today, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is MOST often used for:

  1. mild anxiety
  2. severe depression that resists other treatment
  3. every disorder, as a first step
  4. attention problems in children

Answer: B — severe depression that resists other treatment

B) Correct — It is a later option when medication and therapy haven't worked. A) Isn't treated with ECT. C) It is reserved for severe, treatment-resistant cases. D) Isn't an ECT use.

Treatment of Psychological Disorders flashcards

4 cards from the 11 in this chapter.

Common antidepressant class?

SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro). Increase serotonin availability. Take weeks to work fully.

Biomedical treatments?

Antidepressants (SSRIs), antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety, ECT.

Humanistic therapy?

Client-centered (Rogers). Unconditional positive regard. Help self-actualize.

Systematic desensitization?

A behavior therapy for phobias (Wolpe): the person learns relaxation, then is exposed step by step to a hierarchy of feared situations while staying relaxed.

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