STUDY GUIDE: UNIT 13 – TREATMENT
AP Psychology
In addition to the information in this study guide, you are also
responsible for all of the content in textbook (Chapter 15), all
information from class notes/discussions, videos, handouts and
graphic organizers.
It’s AP – it’s all fair game 
Terms & Concepts
All terms & concepts on page 671
(Terms & concepts are also listed on the back of the APP March calendar)
Big Ideas: Chapter 15
1: What are the aims and methods of psychoanalysis, and how have they been adapted in
psychodynamic therapy?
 Psychoanalysis & Sigmund Freud
2: What are the basic themes of humanistic therapy, such as Rogers’ client-centered approach?
 Carl Rogers
 Active listening
3: What are the assumptions and techniques of the behavior therapies?
 Counter-conditioning, exposure therapy, aversive conditioning
 Operant conditioning
 Token economy
4: What are the goals and techniques of the cognitive therapies?
 Aaron Beck
 Stress-inoculation therapy
5: What are the aims and benefits of group and family therapy?
6: Does psychotherapy work? Who decides?
 Client’s perceptions
 Clinician’s perceptions
 Outcome research
7: Are some therapies more effective than others?
8: How do alternative therapies fare under scientific scrutiny?
 EMDR
 Light-exposure therapy
9: What are three elements shared by all forms of psychotherapy?
10: How do culture and values influence the therapist-client relationship?
 Clinical psychologists
 Clinical or Psychiatric Social Worker
 Counselors
 Psychiatrists
11: What are the drug therapies? What criticisms have been leveled against drug therapies?
 Anti-psychotic drugs
 Antianxiety drugs
 Antidepressants
 Mood stabilizing medications
12: How effective is electroconvulsive therapy, and what other brain-stimulation options may
offer relief from severe depression?
 Electroconvulsive Therapy
 Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
13: What is psychosurgery?
 Lobotomy
 Egas Moniz & Walter Freeman
14: How, by caring for their bodies with a healthy lifestyle, might people find some relief from
depression?