Understanding Psychology (10th Ed)

E VA LU AT E
1. Match each of the following treatment strategies with the 
statement you might expect to hear from a therapist using 
that strategy.
1. Group therapy
a.
“In other words, you don’t get 
2.
Unconditional
along with your mother because she
positive regard hates your girlfriend, is that right?”
humanistic therapy p. 556
person-centered therapy p. 557
interpersonal therapy (IPT) p. 558
group therapy p. 558
family therapy p. 559
spontaneous remission p. 560
3. Behavioral
b.
“I want you all to take turns talking 
therapy 
about why you decided to come and 
4. Nondirective what you hope to gain from therapy.”
counseling
c. “I can understand why you wanted 
to wreck your friend’s car after she 
hurt your feelings. Now tell me more 
about the accident.”
 
d.
“That’s not appropriate behavior. 
Let’s work on replacing it with some-
thing else.”
2.
therapies assume that people should take re-
sponsibility for their lives and the decisions they make.
3. One of the major criticisms of humanistic therapies is that
a. They are too imprecise and unstructured.
b. They treat only the symptom of the problem.
c. The therapist dominates the patient-therapist interaction.
d. They work well only on clients of lower socioeconomic 
status.
4. In a controversial study, Eysenck found that some people 
go into
, or recovery without treat-
ment, if they are simply left alone instead of treated.
R E T H I N K
1. How can people be successfully treated in group therapy 
when individuals with the “same” problem are so differ-
ent? What advantages might group therapy offer over in-
dividual therapy?
2. From the perspective of a social worker: How might the types 
of therapies you employ vary depending on a client’s cul-
tural and socioeconomic background?