CBT Flashcards

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Activity scheduling

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(aka behavioral activation) Working with clients to schedule activities that increase the rate of naturally occurring positive reinforcement. Used for depression especially

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Behavior therapy

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The therapeutic application of scientific behaviorism (holds the premise that psychology is an objective, natural science and therefore is the study of observable and measurable human behavior; the study of the mind is unscientific)

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Behavioral activation

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The idea that changing behaviors will improve symptoms.

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Classical v. operant conditioning

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Classical conditioning involves an association or linking of one environmental stimulus with another. Operant conditioning is a form of behavior modification that involves manipulation of behavioral antecedents and consequences; rooted in learning. (“Behavior is a function of its consequences)

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Exposure therapy

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Clients are best treated by exposure to the very thing they want to avoid. Can be done in vivo, virtual reality, or imaginal

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Mowrer’s Two Factor Theory of Learning

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fear of a stimulus is learned through classical conditioning, and avoiding that stimulus (negative reinforcement) relieves that fear so the fear is maintained through operant conditioning.

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Massed v. spaced exposure

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A single prolonged session v. a series of shorter sessions

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Virtual reality exposure

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Particularly for acrophobia, flight phobia, spider phobia, and other anxiety disorders.

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Interoceptive exposure

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Target exposure stimuli are internal physical cues or somatic sensations. (Heart racing, out of breath, etc.)

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Response and ritual prevention

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Involves therapists guiding and supporting clients to not engage in an avoidance response. (Not washing hands for an OCD person.)

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Participant modeling

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Social learning- watching someone else tackle a feared situation

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Functional Behavioral Analysis

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Formal assessment of behavior contingencies: behavioral ABC’s: antecedents, behavior, consequences

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Reinforcement v. punishment

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Reinforcement is when a stimulus is applied that increases the likelihood of a behavior or an aversive stimulus is removed that increases the likelihood of a behavior; punishment is when a a stimulus is applied that reduces the likelihood of the behavior it follows or when the removal of a stimulus decreases the likelihood of the behavior it follows. Reinforcing a behavior makes it more likely to happen again; punishing a behavior makes it less likely to happen again.

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Self-monitoring

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Clients observe and record their own behaviors

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Automatic thoughts

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Arise from cognitive distortions (faulty assumptions and misconceptions), triggered by external or internal events.

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Cognitive distortions

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Faulty assumptions and misconceptions (catastrophizing, polarized thinking, mind reading, labeling, personalization)

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Core beliefs or schemas

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beneath automatic thoughts; view of self, world and others

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Modeling

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When individuals learn indirectly, from watching or listening to the experiences of others. (observational or vicarious learning)

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Problem list

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Includes client concerns in simple, descriptive, concrete terms

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Psychoeducation

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Focuses on information about client diagnosis, treatment process, prognosis, and intervention strategies.

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Self-efficacy

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The conviction that one can successfully execute the behavior required to produce an outcome. Can be improved through incentives, knowledge and skills, positive feedback, and successful performance accomplishment.

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Social Learning Theory

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A theoretical extension of operant and classical conditioning. Includes stimulus-influence components (classical conditioning) and consequence-influence components (operant conditioning), but also adds a cognitive meditational component. Its two main components are observational learning and person-stimulus reciprocity.

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Socratic questioning

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Used to inspire introspection and uncover a client’s method of reasoning.

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Thought record

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A system for clients to record the following after experiencing a strong emotional response: date and time, situation that elicited the emotional response, behaviors the client engaged in, emotions that were elicited, associated thoughts that occurred during the situation

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CBT characteristics

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Brief or time sensitive, structured, present-oriented, involves teaching and learning, and seeks to change BOTH dysfunctional thinking and maladaptive behavior.

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Stimulus generalization

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Extension of fear response

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Stimulus discrimination

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New stimuli do not elicit fear

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Extinction

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Gradual elimination of conditioned response

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Counter conditioning

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The pairing of a positive (and often incompatible) stimulus with a stimulus that elicits a negative or undesirable response (e.g., fear)

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Spontaneous recovery

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When an extinct conditioned response reappears spontaneously

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Behavioral theory of psychopathology

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Maladaptive behavior is learned, and can be unlearned or replaced by new learning; can involve a skill deficit

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Cognitive appraisal theory

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“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view which they take of them.”

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Beck’s Cognitive Theory

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  • Cognition is at the core of human suffering.
  • The therapist’s job is to help clients modify distress-producing thoughts.
  • self-schema includes negative or inaccurate beliefs
  • Modify cognitions through cognitive therapy using an approach of collaboration, not confrontation
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Beck’s view of psychopathology

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Psychopathology is an exaggeration of normal cognitive biases; cognitive distortions of fault assumptions

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Ellis’ view of psychopathology

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Psychopathology is a function of irrational beliefs

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Beck’s Negative Triad

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“I am unworthy” (I suck)
“The world is falling apart” (The whole world sucks)
“Nothing will ever get better” (Everything will always suck)

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Meichenbaum’s view of psychpathology

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A result of dysfunctional inner speech

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Goals associated with CBT assessment

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  1. Arriving at a diagnosis which best describes client symptoms
  2. Developing a tentative cognitive-behavioral treatment formulation that can be used for treatment planning.
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CBT Assessment strategies

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  • Collaborative interviewing
  • Setting an agenda
  • The problem list
  • Self-rating scales
  • Self-monitoring (client homework)
  • Case formulation
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Types of behavioral “heavy” interventions

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  • Behavioral activation
  • Token economies/contingency management
  • Exposure
  • Skills Training
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Relaxation training

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counter-conditioning treatment

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Systematic desensitization

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An exposure treatment in which avoidance behavior can be negatively reinforced through operant conditioning

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Cognitive “heavy” interventions

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  • Identifying thoughts
  • Coping statements
  • Socratic questioning
  • Cognitive Restructuring
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Vertical Descent

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aka Downward Arrow is about uncovering core beliefs: “What would it mean to you if you did have cancer?”

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Cognitive Restructuring

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Getting the client to rethink and revise maladaptive interpretations (examining the evidence, considering alternatives)

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How do behavioral and cognitive theory explain the role of the therapist and their primary tasks in helping the client?

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Develop a collaborative and educational relationship with clients. Set an agenda, identify a problem list, use self rating scales and procedures, develop a case formulation, and provide psychoeducation. Explore and identify clients’ automatic thoughts and core beliefs.

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What are some of the specific therapy skills used in CBT and their rationales?

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  • Vigorous and forceful disputing: clients offer a forceful and rational counterattack against their irrational beliefs
  • Generating alternative interpretations
  • Psychoeducation
  • Guess the underlying thoughts
  • Vertical descent technique (Socratic questioning)
  • Use monitoring procedures
  • Thinking in shades of grey/graduated thinking
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What are the strengths of CBT?

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  • CBT is the most widely accepted and respected approach available
  • Effective across a wide range of mental disorders and client
  • Good fit with the medical model (amenable to manualization)
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What are the limitations of CBT?

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  • Efficacy evidence focuses on immediate effects and it’s difficult to determine longer-term effects.
  • Can be viewed as “blaming” clients for their symptoms because it is so individually focused and doesn’t take cultural or diversity factors into account