AP Psychology Chapter 17 – Treatment – Study Guide
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What is clinical psychology?
To what did people attribute serious mental disorders in the Middle Ages in Europe?
Explain Dorothea Dix’s moral-treatment movement.
Describe the reform movement in the U.S in the mid-1950’s. What made this movement
possible?
Describe the community-based mental health movement in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s.
Although prescription drugs are available for treatment mental disorders, what are some of the
disadvantages of these drugs?
What are placebo effects?
Describe psychodynamic therapy – theory of causation of mental disorders, treatment
techniques
Manifest versus latent content of dreams
Free association
Transference
Resistance
Compare humanistic therapy and existential philosophy
Which type of therapy employs genuine positive regard?
Compare cognitive and behavioral therapy
According to cognitive therapists, what is the source of behavioral and emotional problems?
Albert Ellis ABC theory
Aaron Beck treatment of depressed young woman named Irene
For what disorders is behavior therapy successful?