1. Which one of these is NOT an approach to psychological interventions?

1. motivational interviewing
2. humanistic therapy
3. cognitive behavioural therapy
4. group therapy

2. According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, what is the role of the superego?

1. establishes the rules and prohibitions, telling us the right thing to do using guilt to override our id impulses
2. mediates between the unrealistic id and the external real world
3. it works out realistic ways to satisfy the id’s demands
4. it demands immediate satisfaction

3. Who is psychodynamic therapy most beneficial for?

1. clients whose sense of self is stable
2. clients whose interpersonal emotional issues are most prominent
3. clients whose sense of self is stable and clients whose interpersonal emotional issues are most prominent
4. clients who do not display intrapsychic conflict

4. Which of the following is NOT an aim of cognitive behavioural therapy?

1. learning not to have intrusive thoughts
2. to develop rational thinking and ways of behaving to reduce psychological distress
3. aiding clients in solving real-life problems
4. to use cognitive, behavioural and emotional regulation to modify distressing affect

5. What is Socratic questioning?

1. a form of dialogue that helps a person to discover and attend to previously overlooked information and to guide discovery of the therapist rather than interpretation from the individual
2. a form of dialogue that helps a person to discover and attend to previously attended information and to guide discovery of the individual rather than interpretation from the therapist
3. a form of dialogue that helps a person to discover and attend to previously overlooked information and to guide discovery of the individual rather than interpretation from the therapist
4. a form of dialogue that helps a person to discover and attend to previously attended information and to guide discovery of the therapist rather than interpretation from the individual

6. What are the four conditions relating to person-centred therapy?

1. organismic valuing processes, the effects of others and the environment, conditions of worth, the locus of evaluation
2. the locus of evaluation, unconditional positive regard, conditions of worth, organismic valuing processes
3. the locus of evaluation, unconditional positive regard, conditions of worth, the effects of others and the environment
4. organismic valuing processes, the effects of others and the environment, conditions of worth, unconditional positive regard

7. Which of the following is NOT listed by Burke, Arkowitz and Mechola (2003) as being treatable with motivational interviewing:

1. substance-related disorders
2. smoking cessation
3. diabetes
4. obsessive-compulsive disorder

8. What is the function of tricyclic medications?

1. they improve mood and depression
2. they block the reuptake of certain chemicals like dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin
3. they improve mood and depression, and they block the reuptake of certain chemicals like dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin
4. they selectively block the reuptake of serotonin

9. What voltage is typically passed across the brain during electroconvulsive therapy?

1. 200 volts
2. 120 volts
3. 175 volts
4. 225 volts

10. How are the side effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) reduced?

1. ECT is administered on one side of the brain
2. the procedure is repeated less times a week during a number of sessions
3. the number of sessions is reduced
4. ECT is administered on both sides of the brain