Brief Therapy/Cognitive Therapies

Question 1

Brief Therapy

Answer 1

Seeing the history of the problem as less important and the present as the primary focus, the brief therapist is interested in focusing on specific problems and taking a much more involved role.

Question 2

Brief Therapy Treatment

Answer 2

Goads the client to examine behaviors that work while concentrating on successes rather than failures.

Question 3

Cognitive Behavioral Theory

Answer 3

Maladaptive behavior is associated with patterns of thinking and response that do not result in mentally healthy outcomes.

Question 4

Reinforcers

Answer 4

Consequences that accelerate behavior.

Question 5

Punishers

Answer 5

Consequences that decelerate behavior.

Question 6

SORKC Model of Behavior

Answer 6

Stimulus, Organism, Response, Nature, Contingency of consequences

Question 7

Automatic Thoughts

Answer 7

Based on faulty logic or errors in reasoning that cause painful emotional reactions.

Question 8

Schemas

Answer 8

Cognitive structures thought to be templates, or basic rules, for interpreting info from the environment. Core beliefs.

Question 9

How is cognitive behavior therapy conducted?

Answer 9

Short-term (10-20 treatments.)

Question 10

Collaborative Empiricism

Answer 10

Therapeutic relationship between client and clinician in cognitive therapy because they work together to examine the validity of cognitions, the effectiveness of behavior patterns.

Question 11

Beck believed a client’s difficulties are the result of a distorted construction of reality on what three levels?

Answer 11

1. View of self
2. View of Experiences
3. View of the future

Question 12

Self-Talk

Answer 12

Examine automatic illogical thoughts with the intent of changing the underlying assumptions responsible for beliefs and therefore for actions.

Question 13

Stress-inoculation Training

Answer 13

Practice of making positive self-statements.

Question 14

Behavior Exchange Theory

Answer 14

Explanation of behavior in relationships as maintained by a ratio of costs to beliefs

Question 15

Premack Principle

Answer 15

Using high-probability behavior to reinforce low-probability behavior

Question 16

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Answer 16

Ellis, form of CBT. Therapist aims to help the client desire rather than demand, positively changing those aspects the client wants to change and working toward acceptance of what cannot be changed. Individuals have potential for rational thinking.

Question 17

Counselor/Client Relationship in REBT

Answer 17

Not required to be warm, counselor may criticize negative behaviors.

Question 18

REBT ABCDE framework

Answer 18

Activating event, belief, consequent effect, disputing irrational belief, effect

Question 19

Rational Beliefs

Answer 19

Lead to self-helping behaviors and emotions

Question 20

Irrational beliefs

Answer 20

Lead to self-defeating behaviors and emotions.

Question 21

Positive Preferential Evaluation

Answer 21

I prefer for people to like me, but they do not have to.

Question 22

Positive Musturbatory Evaluation

Answer 22

I must have my peers approve of me.