Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The founder of rational emotive behavior therapy is:
Albert Ellis
According to REBT, what is the core of most emotional disturbance?
Blame
The four strengths of the strengths-based CBT application of the NEW paradigm for chronic issues and personality disorders include all of the following except: a. conceptualize the OLD system of operating and help clients understand they do things "for good reasons." b. construct NEW systems of how clients would like to be. c. strengthen the NEW using behavioral experiments to try on NEW ways of being and edit them as needed. d. strength training.
D - strength training
The four-step model of strengths-based CBT to build resilience include all of the following except: a. search. b. construct. c . apply d. discover.
D. Discover
Beck's cognitive therapy has been most widely applied to the treatment of
DEPRESSION
Who embraces a cognitive narrative perspective on CBT?
Donald Meichenbaum
Collaborative empiricism involves a cognitive therapist's collaboration with colleagues on a client's base.
False
True/False: A goal of REBT is to assist clients in the process of achieving conditional self-acceptance, conditional acceptance, and conditional life-acceptance.
False
True/False: According to Beck, selective abstraction is clients taking all the details of an event and using this information to reinforce negative schemas and support their maladaptive core beliefs.
False
True/False: According to the generic cognitive model, our beliefs do not play a major role in determining what type psychological distress we will experience.
False
True/False: During strengths-based therapy, clients often discover that they will use less resilient strategies when they encounter obstacles in areas of positive interest than they do in problem areas of their life
False
True/False: Ellis claims that his methods are applicable to individual therapy but that his approach does not work well in group therapy
False
True/False: Rational emotive imagery involves behavior change only
False
True/False: Since humor showers the absurdity of certain ideas that clients steadfastly maintain, it is always inappropriate to use in sessions as it might be perceived as offensive.
False
True/False: Strengths based CBT is a variant of Albert Ellis' REBT
False
True/False: There is no concept in REBT that in any way aggress with Rogers's idea of unconditional positive regard
False
True/False: There is not a very good fit between cognitive behavior therapy and multicultural therapy
False
Which of the following REBT techniques helps a client become increasingly proficient at minimizing irrational thinking and disturbances in feeling and behaving?
Homework
In Meichenbaum's cognitive behavior modification, what is given primary importance?
Inner speech
The REBT technique that involves having clients vividly imagine one of the worst things that might happen to them and to describe their disturbing feelings is called
Rational-emotive imagery
The main function of the rational emotive behavior therapist is to:
Reveal irrational disputes, and help clients change their thinking and philosophy of life
Which REBT technique involves having the client do the very thing they avoid because of "what people might think"?
Shame-attacking exercise
_____________ are integrated into each phase of treatment in strengths-based CBT beginning with the intake interview
Strengths
The main idea of __________ is that active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that otherwise would be missed.
Strengths-based CB
The use of constructive questions, the importance of identifying client imagery and metaphors for change, and an emphasis on client strengths are innovations that formed the foundation of which therapeutic approach?
Strengths-based cognitive behavioral
True/False: According to Ellis, events themselves do not cause emotional disturbances; rather it is our evaluation of these events that causes the problem.
True
True/False: All of the cognitive behavioral approaches share the same basic characteristics and assumptions as traditional behavior therapy.
True
True/False: Beck's therapeutic approach originally focused on specific symptoms of depression clients and the reasons they give for these symptoms
True
True/False: Bibliotherapeutic approaches have empirical support for the treatment of depression, for a variety of anxiety disorders, and for a range of clinical problems
True
True/False: Clients learn the "musts" "oughts" and absolutely "shoulds" can be replaced by preferences in REBT
True
True/False: Cognitive behavioral group therapy stresses the importance of homework outside the therapy session
True
True/False: Cognitive therapy can be effectively employed in crisis intervention:
True
True/False: Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behavior modification focuses on changing a client's self-talk.
True
True/False: In family therapy contexts, cognitive behavior therapists are particularly interested in family schema.
True
True/False: Like cognitive therapy, strengths-based CBT is empirically based
True
True/False: Magnification and minimization consist of perceiving a case or situation in a greater or lesser light than it truly deserves
True
True/False: Meichenbaum's self-instructional training focuses on helping clients become aware of their self-talk and the stories they tell about themselv.es
True
True/False: One of Beck's early contributions was to recognize that regardless of the cause of depression, once people became depressed, their thinking reflected what Beck referred to as the negative cognitive triad, negative views of the self, the world, and future.
True
True/False: Part of Ellis's motivation for developing REBT was to deal with his own problems.
True
True/False: Psychoeducational methods include materials such as books, DVDs, and articles.
True
True/False: REBT hypothesizes that we keep ourselves emotionally disturbed by the process of self-indoctrination
True
True/False: Stress inoculation is a coping-skills approach designed to change a person's self-statements.
True
True/False: The cognitive behavioral therapies are largely based on the idea that the reorganization of clients' self-statements is a key to changing their behavior
True
True/False: Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behavior modification shares with REBT and Beck's cognitive therapy the assumption that distressing emotions are often the result of maladaptive thoughts.
True
Which of the following is NOT true about role playing in REBT? a. It is a way of surfacing unfinished business. b. It involves emotional components. c. It involves behavioral components. d. It helps reveal irrational beliefs.
a - it is a way of surfacing unfinished business
The correct components of the A-B-C theory of personality are
activating event, belief, consequence
The cognitive distortion of making conclusions without supporting and relevant evidence is
arbitrary inferences
Strengths-based CBT therapists
are collaborative, active, here-and-now focused, and client-centered.
In cognitive therapy, techniques are designed to
assist individuals in making alternative interpretations of events in their daily living.
Which of the following is NOT a part of the five-step treatment procedure used in a coping skills program? a. Exposing clients to anxiety-provoking situations by means of role playing and imagery b. Evaluating the anxiety level of the client by using both physiological and psychological tests c. Teaching clients to become aware of the anxiety-provoking cognitions they experience in stressful situations d. Helping clients examine their thoughts by reevaluating their self-statements
b. Evaluating the anxiety level of the client by using both physiological and psychological tests
Which of the following statements does NOT reflect one of Ellis's three basic musts? a. "I must do well and be loved and approved by others." b. "Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well." c. "I must be kind to others or else I won't be a good person." d. "The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just, providing me with all that I want in life."
c - "I must be kind to others or else I won't be a good person"
All of the following are true as they apply to self-instructional training, except that: a. it was developed by Meichenbaum. b. it is a form of cognitive restructuring. c. it is an outgrowth of an approach used widely by crisis intervention workers called self-induced change therapy. d. it is also known as cognitive behavior modification.
c - it is an outgrowth of an approach used widely by crisis intervention workers called self-induced change therapy
All of the following are theoretical assumptions of Beck's CT, except: a. people's thought processes are accessible to introspection. b. people's beliefs have highly personal meanings. c. people must re-experience the past and process their feelings before change can happen. d. people can discover these meanings themselves rather than being taught or having them interpreted by the therapist.
c - people must re-experience the past and process their feelings before change can happen
One strength of cognitive behavioral therapy group counseling is that:
clients learn to minimize symptoms through a profound change in philosophy
Which of the following is NOT one of the three phases of Meichenbaum's stress inoculation program? a. The application and follow-through phase b. The conceptual-educational phase c. The skills acquisition and consolidation phase d. The therapeutic role modeling phase
d - The therapeutic role modeling phase
Beck's cognitive therapy involves all of the concepts below except: a. negative cognitive triad. b. generic cognitive model. c. collaborative empiricism. d. lifestyle assessment.
d - lifestyle assessment
Stress inoculation training consists of all of the following except: a. behavioral rehearsals. b. self-monitoring. c. cognitive restructuring. d. tapping into the unconscious realm.
d - tapping into the unconscious realm
Strengths-based CBT practitioners ask clients for _______________ to describe their experiences, both positive and negative.
imagery and metaphors
The cognitive distortion that involves portraying one's identity on the basis of imperfections and mistakes made in the past and allowing them to define one's true identity is
labeling and mislabeling
The main therapeutic goal of REBT is to
minimize clients' emotional disturbances and self-defeating behaviors
The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings is known as
overgeneralization
The tendency for individuals to relate external events to themselves, even when there is no basis for making this connection, is known as:
personalization
The type of cognitive error that involves thinking and interpreting in all-or-nothing terms, or in categorizing experiences in either/or extremes, is known as:
polarized thinking
In strengths-based CBT, ___________ identified in early therapy sessions can provide a wealth of information to help therapist and client collaboratively integrate strengths into case conceptualization and treatment.
positive interests and strengths
A feature of REBT that distinguishes it from other cognitive-behavioral therapies is its
process to identify and dispute irrational beliefs that have been acquired and self-constructed and are now maintained by self-indoctrination.
The cognitive distortion that consists of forming conclusions based on an isolated detail of an event is
selective abstraction
In the strengths-based CBT four step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage of therapy is that the client:
sets a goal to "be resilient in the face of challenges"
The role of the client in rational emotive behavior therapy is like that of a:
student or learner
According to Ellis, emotional disturbances often result from
taking oneself too seriously
The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses
thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing and doing
