15. Psychological Therapies

The main goal of _____ therapy is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly.

Compared to the others, which approach to therapy would be MOST likely to use leading questions and planned experiences, such as confronting clients about their own statements, during therapy sessions?

A more recent updating of behavior modification is known as

_____ can be useful to treat disorders such as phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety disorders by pairing a stimulus that normally causes an unwanted response with a neutral one, eventually creating desirable involuntary reactions.

_____ therapies are action-based rather than insight-based.

While treating a child who has a fear of swimming, a therapist first approaches the water, then touches the water, then stands in the water waist-deep, and finally floats in the water. The therapist then repeats the steps with the child. This is an example of

Unlike psychodynamic and humanistic therapies, behavior therapies are

Fatima earns a gumball sticker for every chore she completes. She puts the stickers on her gumball chart. When the gumball chart is filled, Fatima gets to choose a prize out of the prize box. Fatima's parents are using