Theories Final

Personhood

REBT contends that it is important to separate performance from

Imagery

A client stated, "This relationship is nothing like I had pictured it to be. I had visualized us as 'two peas in a pod' -- getting along so well that we could read each other's minds." It is likely that the client's preferred modality is...

They realize I don't have leadership qualities, and therefore they chose someone else

A man finds out he was not given a promotion. Which is the best example of a core cognition he might have in response to this situation?

syncretism

A scattered approach to treatment which is haphazard and inconsistent, having neither direction nor coherence, is called...

Personal constructs allow people to make sense of reality

According to Kelly...

Conditional Self-acceptance

According to REBT, emotional difficulties are often found in people with

Thoughts

According to REBT, negative reactions can become either self-destructive or appropriate emotions depending on our..

Internal and external reinforcements

According to behaviorists, the primary determinant(s) of the development of a behavior is/are...

A common factors approach

An approach which emphasizes the therapeutic alliance and other essential ingredients that have been found to characterize effective treatment is called

Promote violent behaviors

Bandura's research suggests that the increasing violence in video games and on television will:

How do you perceive fighting as meeting your needs?

Caleb was suspended from school several times because of his involvement in physical fights. Which of the following questions would a reality therapist be most likely to ask Caleb?

Essential Treatment Tool

Cognitive Theorists view the DSM as...

Self-determination

Compared to other cognitive-behavioral approaches, reality therapy places greater emphasis on...

Borderline Personality Disorder

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was initially created by Marcia Linehan to treat people with...

Reciprocal Inhibition

EMDR, which helps people reduce negative images resulting from traumatic experiences, involves the use of:

Improvement is more likely in family therapy than individual therapy

Family therapists differ from individual therapists because:

relatedness and respect

Glasser believed that people have two basic needs:

Secondary Focus

In REBT, the treatment of behavior is...

In-depth discussions of the past can relieve irrational beliefs

In REBT, which of the following is NOT true of irrational beliefs?

Ideas

In cognitive Therapy, clients are encouraged to view core beliefs as

Are important because of their contribution to dysfunctional thinking

In cognitive therapy, background factors...

The determinant of emotions and behavior

In cognitive therapy, thoughts are believed to be...

Parents forget their role in the family (e.g., mother, father) and cross boundaries into another subsystem (e.g., aunt/uncle, or sister/brother)

In structural family therapy, which of the following is NOT a common problem, based on the theory developed by Salvator Minuchin?

Cognitive therapy was more effective than medication

In the treatment of depression, Beck found that...

As an organizational system through which all living organisms and social groups could be understood.

Ludwig von Bertalanffy developed systems theory...

Cognitive, Behavioral, and Psychodynamic therapies

Meichenbaum's work integrates

Technical eclecticism

Multimodal therapy is an example of...

Insight to see the origins of our problems

NOT required for people to make positive change in REBT

Congruent

Of the five communication stances outlined by Virginia Satir, only the _____ stance is healthy and leads to communications and connections between people.

use of narrative

Patterson operationalized many of the theoretical concepts of Bandura's social learning theory. Which of the following is NOT an intervention in behavioral therapy?

Overemphasizing some needs while neglecting others

Reality theorists believe that mental illness is the result of...

The mechanisms for passing cultural assumptions from one generation to the next

Social learning theory seeks to understand...

Family therapy requires the presence of a co-therapist

Some drawbacks associated with family therapy include all except which of the following?

All of the Above (look behind symptoms for possible secondary gains, develop paradoxical directives, propose experiments that may seem punishing or absurd)

Strategic family therapy developed by Jay Haley and others teaches therapists to:

If people can learn to cope with mild stressors, they will eventually be able to cope with more severe ones

Stress inoculation training (SIT) assumes that...

Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions

Target(s) of intervention in cognitive therapy is/are...

A format for client assessment.

The acronym BASIC I.D. represents...

Qualities of viable plans

The acronym SAMI(^2)C(^3) represents...

Wants, Direction/Doing, Evaluation, Planning

The acronym WDEP represents...

Reducing Symptoms and Changing Beliefs

The primary focus of REBT is...

Regulate Emotions

The primary goal of DBT is to help clients...

Convey that emotions are actions that can be changed

The purpose of using active verbs and "ing" words in reality therapy is to...

Related to Immediate Situations

When disputing irrational beliefs, clinicians often begin with those irrational beliefs that are...

Each person in the family equally

When working with a family, the clinician must establish a therapeutic alliance with...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Which disorder is most likely to benefit from REBT?

Jay Haley

Which of the following developed a theory of family therapy that does NOT focus on emotions?

De-escalation

Which of the following interventions is completed in Phase I of Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy?

A self-contained theoretical basis guides the selection of interventions

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of technical eclecticism?

Centering

Which of the following is NOT a key concept of Bowenian family systems theory?

Experiments

Which of the following is NOT an intervention typically used in structural family therapy as developed by Salvator Minuchin?

The therapist's role is viewed as a director

Which of the following is NOT congruent with post-modern family systems theory?

Analysis of the relationship between client and therapist

Which of the following is NOT incorporated in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)?

Spirituality

Which of the following is NOT one of the five basic needs, according to Reality Therapy?

It encourages clinicians to spend a significant amount of time reviewing clients' past behaviors

Which of the following is NOT true of Reality Therapy?

It is an example of atheoretical eclecticism

Which of the following is NOT true of Wachtel's integrated psychodynamic-behavior therapy?

The therapist acts as an authority figure

Which of the following is NOT true of cognitive therapy?

It places considerable emphasis on the importance of diagnosis

Which of the following is NOT true of reality therapy?

Negative schemas must be altered before negative automatic thoughts will change

Which of the following is NOT true of schemas?

SFBFT is a complex model, including a complicated series of interventions

Which of the following is NOT true of solution-focused brief family therapy?

All of the Above (it is likely to be confusing to clients, can contain incompatible elements, combines interventions without regard to an overriding theory of change or development)

Which of the following is true of atheoretical eclecticism?

There is no research to document the effectiveness of meditation in reducing stress

Which of the following questions about the third generation of behavior therapy is NOT true

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Which of the following statements best captures the essence of theoretical integration?

REBT is not appropriate for group and family counseling

Which of the following statements is NOT true of REBT?

It is short term, Focused on solutions, and focuses on family relationships in the here and now (All of the above)

Which of the following statements is true of most types of family therapy?

Theoretical Integration

_______ offer(s) conceptual guidelines for integrating two or more treatment systems.