CBT

Question 1

Emotional reasoning

Answer 1

You assume that because you feel a certain emotion strongly, it must be true

Question 2

Social exchange theory

Answer 2

Theory that centers on the costs and benefits associated with relationships. rewards to the cost of staying in a relationship versus alternative (separation). I.e. a spouse may stay in a broken marriage, because they feel that the alternative of separation would be unbearable, emotional, and Security, living alone and divorce would be viewed as destroying their family and children
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Question 3

Bank account model

Answer 3

Developed by John Gottman, model of marital exchange in which the positive investments made overtime sustained a couple through situational non-reciprocity. Negative behaviors, rather than being exchanged, or not reciprocated, because the other person knows of that their loved ones are just having a moment

Question 4

Schema

Answer 4

A Mental codification of experiences that include a particular organized way of looking at things cognitively or responding to a complex situation or stimuli

Question 5

Automatic thought

Answer 5

Thoughts that are instantaneous and unconscious; affects mood and actions

Question 6

Limbic system

Answer 6

Regulates emotion and memory such as appraisal of meaning, processing social experience and regulation of emotions

Question 7

Amygdala

Answer 7

Almond sized, the ‘primitive’ part of the brain that assesses for fight or flight. Makes assumptions on what is or is not safe (I.e. hypersensitive)

Question 8

Positive sentiment override

Answer 8

Teaching people to acknowledge the relevance of their amygdala’s response to the present situation and past trauma

Question 9

CBT

Answer 9

Form of talk therapy that focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors

Question 10

Triangulation

Answer 10

Reactive process where a third person who is sensitized to the anxiety in a couple or family moves in to provide reassurance or calm things down. Makes things uncomfortable for the third person

Question 11

Circular causal processing

Answer 11

Ones behavior prompts the other person to withdrawal (contribute to depression, low self esteem, and any one number elements of psychotherapy)

Question 12

Socratic questioning

Answer 12

Systematic questions used to uncover a persons thoughts and underlying beliefs

Question 13

Four horsemen of the apocalypse

Answer 13

1. Complaint/criticism
2. Contempt (mockery, insult, sarcasm, or division of another person, indicating incompetence or absurdity)
3. Defensiveness
4. stonewalling (looks like they are not listening to the person talking to them, they build a wall)

Question 14

Contingency contract

Answer 14

In a situation in which spouses are gridlocked, therapist will instruct them to simultaneously search for positive qualities of one another rather than focus on undesirable aspects and draw up contracts

Question 15

Tolerance building/inoculation

Answer 15

Instead of the idea of eliminating a problem, concept centers on the idea that problems will reappear and it’s up to us to manage this in a healthy manner

Question 16

Disputation

Answer 16

Irrational belief that needs to be changed into something rational