Treatment of Abnormal Behavior

Dorothea Dix was an:

American reformer

Dorothea Dix documented the:

Deplorable conditions in how states cared for their insane poor

Dix’s single-minded zeal helped to create:

The first generation of American mental hospitals

How did Dix help create the first generation of American mental hospitals?

By persuading state legislatures to create them

Albert Ellis is renowned for developing the:

Principles and procedures of rational-emotive therapy

What did Ellis help his clients to do?

Dispute irrational beliefs and replace them with more rational interpretations of events

A survey of American and Canadian psychologists ranked which three people as the three most influential psychotherapists in history

Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, Sigmund Freud

Aaron Beck is widely regarded as the father of:

Cognitive therapy

Aaron Beck’s pioneering theories are widely used to:

Treat clinical depression

Mary Cover Jones conducted pioneering research in applying _____ to therapy

Behavioral techniques

Jones is often called:

“The mother of behavior therapy"

Why is Jones often called “the mother of behavior therapy"?

She applied behavioral techniques to therapy

Joseph Wolpe was a:

South African psychologist

Joseph Wolpe perfected a technique for:

Treating anxiety-producing phobias

Joseph Wolpe’s technique for treating anxiety-producing phobias was inspired by:

Mary Cover Jones's successful use of behavioral techniques

Joseph Wolpe’s technique for treating anxiety-producing phobias was called:

Systematic desensitization

First step of systematic desensitization:

Teaching client how to maintain a state of deep relaxation

During systematic desensitization, what happens after the client is taught how to maintain a state of deep relaxation?

The psychiatrist and client create a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing images and situations

In systematic desensitization, the psychiatrist and client begin with where on the anxiety-arousing images hierarchy?

Least threatening experience

In systematic desensitization, what happens after the psychiatrist and client begin the least threatening experience on the anxiety-arousing images hierarchy?

They gradually work their way to the top level of the hierarchy