Instructions: For each of the following problems, indicate whichtherapeutic approach (psychodynamic, rational-emotive, systematicdesensitization, modeling and social skills training, familytherapy, drug therapy) that is likely to be the most useful for thefollowing client scenarios.
1. Ernestine is terrified of elevators. She would rather walk up100 flights of stairs than ride in an elevator. Even thinking aboutelevators makes her heart pound and her palms sweat. 2. Tamara isvery depressed because she feels stupid, unloved, and unlovable,and is convinced that none of this will ever change.
3. Stefan is very shy. He would love to be in a closerelationship with a girl, and is convinced that she would like himif she had a chance to get to know him, but he just doesn’t knowhow to take the first steps to get to know someone.
4. Ricardo hears voices that tell him to do things that hedoesn’t want to do. He is very paranoid, and is convinced thatpeople in the television set are watching him and waiting to hurthim.
5. Gerry keeps trying to find a man just like her father. Shegoes from relationship to relationship looking for the right man,but none of them can live up to the image she has of her dad as theperfect husband, lover, and father.
6. Yolanda has been anorexic ever since her early teens.Basically, she controls everything that goes on in her household byher refusal to eat.
7. Every time James tries to do something to please his parents,they seem to him to be dissatisfied, and he is convinced thatnothing he can do will ever make them happy. He broods so muchabout his failure to please them that he can’t seem to findanything to do to make himself happy.
