BrainscapeTest

Question 1

Why is effectiveness more important that competence?

Answer 1

Competence doesn’t guarantee effectiveness.

Question 2

What is bridging in CBT?

Answer 2

The process of brining into this session information of what occurred for the client in the last session, and since the last session.

Question 3

What is Parkinson’s law?

Answer 3

The idea that therapy will fill all the time that is avialable.

Question 4

In CBT: What factors go towards the creation of coping strategies?

Answer 4

Relevant Childhood Data, Core Beliefs, Conditional Assumptions or Rules, Coping Strategies

Question 5

In CBT: What is the processes that connect events to emtions and behavior?

Answer 5

Situation, Automatic Thought, Meaning of Automatic Thought, Emotion, Behavior

Question 6

In CBT: What is the ABC process flow?

Answer 6

Activating Event, Beliefs, Consequences or Results

Question 7

Can SFBT be used in conjuction with other therapies?

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

Client ratings of therapeutic alliance have a higher correlation with ____ and _____ than the therapist’s ratings.

Answer 8

Engagement and outcome

Question 9

What is one of the best predictors of successful outcome between any pairing of client and therapist?

Answer 9

Client’s subjective experience of change early in treatment.

Question 10

What are the basic components of client-directed therapy?

Answer 10

Backdrop: Client strengths and resources. Client’s theory of change depicted as a stool with 3 legs. 1) Shared goals, 2) Consensus on means, methods or tasks of treatment, 3) Emotional bond.

Question 11

What are some key skills necessary for Motivational Interviewing

Answer 11

Expressing Empathy, Developing Discrepancies, Avoiding Arguing, Rolling with Resistance, Supporting Self-Efficacy

Question 12

What are 5 key elements of brief treatment?

Answer 12

Quick formulation of working alliance, Rapid but thorough assessment, A language of hope and expectation of change is pervasive, Interventions are structured and therapy is action-oriented, Progress is monitored each session and informs tx decisions

Question 13

Who were leading proponents of CBT?

Answer 13

Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis

Question 14

What are the 3 most common core beliefs?

Answer 14

I am helpless, I am unloveable, I am worthless

Question 15

What are the elements of the cognitive triad?

Answer 15

Negative view of the self, Negative view of the future, Negative view of the world.

Question 16

Define 3 types of automatic thought?

Answer 16

Catastrophizing (Extreme consequences), All or nothing (seeing this as either black or white), Emotional Reasoning (If I feel it, it must be true).

Question 17

What would be an example negative triad associated with depression?

Answer 17

Self, I am unloveable. Others, People do not care about me. Future, The future is bleak.

Question 18

What would be an example negative triad associated with anxiety?

Answer 18

Self, I am unable to protect myself. Others, People will humiliate me. Future, It is only a matter of time before I am embarrassed.

Question 19

What are 6 outlooks of SFBT?

Answer 19

1) Competency based behaviors, 2) Mastery of a goal, 3) Small changes lead to bigger ones, 4) Looking for exceptions, 5) The future without the problem, 6) Conversational skills.

Question 20

What are 7 techniques used in SFBT?

Answer 20

1) The miracle question, 2) Use of scaling questions, 3) A consulting break and giving the client a set of compliments, 4) Assigning homework tasks, 5) Looking for strengths or solutions, 6) Goal setting, 7) Looking for exceptions to the problem.

Question 21

Name some populations that SFBT has research indicating it was helpful for?

Answer 21

Clients who batter, couples dealing with inter-personal-violence, medication adherance with clients with schizophrenia.

Question 22

What are the 8 skills needed for Motivational Interviewing?

Answer 22

1) Openness to collaboration with client’s own expertise, 2) proficiency in client-centered counseling, including accurate empathy, 3) recognition of key aspects of client speech that guide the practice of MI, 4) eliciting and strengthening client change talk, 5) rolling with resistance, 6) negotiating change plans, 7) consolidating client commitment, 8) switching flexibly between MI and other intervention styles.

Question 23

What are the 5 stages of change?

Answer 23

1) Pre-contemplation, 2) Contemplation, 3) Preparation, 4) Action, 5) Maintenance

Question 24

Define the pre-contemplation stage?

Answer 24

Client is not thinking about making any changes within in the next 6 months

Question 25

Define the contemplation stage?

Answer 25

The client is thinking about changing within the next 6 months (no plans, no recent attempts)

Question 26

Define the preparation stage?

Answer 26

The client tried to change in the past year and are thinking about making the change again in the next month.

Question 27

Define the action stage?

Answer 27

A period of 0-6 months after which the client has made the effort to make a change.

Question 28

Define the maintenance stage?

Answer 28

Any period after 6 months of action and continuing until termination.

Question 29

What are 6 key features or techniques of practice in BPT

Answer 29

1) Patient selection, maturity of interpersonal object relations, 2) formulation of clinical focus, 3) deliberate time limit, 4) active techniques of inquiry and interpretation, 5) emphasis on termination, 6) goal setting.