CBT Therapeutic Interventions

Question 1

Safety Planning starts with _____ and switches to _____ if the first is not working.

Answer 1

Internal Strategies; External Strategies

Question 2

Put the following SIX steps of Safety Planning Intervention in order:

1) Contact mental health professionals
2) Use social contacts for distraction or support
3) Use internal coping strategies
4) Reduce access to lethal means
5) Recognize the warning signs of suicidal crisis
6_ Contact family and friends who might help resolve the crisis

Answer 2

1) recognize the warning signs of suicidal crisis
2) use internal coping strategies (eg. going for a walk, creative project…)
3) use social contacts for distraction or support
4) contact family or friends who may help resolve the crisis
5) contact mental health professionals or agencies
6) reduce access to lethal means

Question 3

What kind of therapy uses EMOTION REGULATION, COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY, and RELAPSE PREVENTION for active duty military personnel?

Answer 3

Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (BCBT)

Question 4

The THREE stages of CBT for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) for adolescents consist of:

Answer 4

Stage 1 - Emergency Work
Stage 2 - Address the issues
Stage 3 - Relapse Prevention

Question 5

Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Flexibility, and Relapse Prevention are necessary for what?

Answer 5

CBT for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)

Question 6

The combined CBT & DBT technique for adolescents consists of the ACUTE PHASE (chain analysis and safety planning) followed by the CONTINUATION PHASE (generalizing and consolidating behaviors and cognitive skills of relapse prevention.

Answer 6

CBT for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)

Question 7

These techniques enable clients to become self-aware and DECENTER from distressing thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and treatments and are used for pain management.

Answer 7

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Question 8

Attention-regulation, emotion-regulation, body awareness, and decentering/reperceiving are all part of what techniques?

Answer 8

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Question 9

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches that…

Answer 9

Pain is normal (clean pain and dirty discomfort) and increase in psychological flexibility

Question 10

The SIX steps of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in order are:

1) cognitive defusion
2) being present
3) values-based actions
4) committed action
5) awareness as self-control
6) experience acceptance

Answer 10

1) experiential acceptance

2) cognitive DEFUSION - distancing oneself from thoughts and feelings. They’re just experiences.

3) being present

4) awareness of self-as-context —> counters attachment to the conceptualized self. I.e. the self is just the context in which the thoughts and feelings occur.

5) values-based actions

6) committed action

Question 11

Which technique is used to build COPING SKILLS?

Answer 11

Meichenbaum’s Stress Inoculation Training

Question 12

What are the THREE phases of Stress Inoculation Training?

Answer 12

1) CONCEPTUALIZATION & COGNITIVE PREPARTION
“stress-related performance problems are due to skill deficits and maladaptive cognitions”

2) SKILLS & ACQUISITION & IN-VITRO REHEARSAL
coping skills —> self instruction, relaxation, problem-solving

3) IN-VIVO APPLICATION and FOLLOW-THROUGH

Question 13

This technique builds PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS with children

Answer 13

Meichenbaum’s Self-Instructional Training

Question 14

The FIVE stages of Self-Instructional Training are:

Answer 14

1) cognitive modeling
2) overt external guidance
3) overt self-guidance
4) faded overt guidance
5) covert self-instruction

Question 15

Replacement of IRRATIONAL BELIEFS with RATIONAL BELIEFS (and looking the gray area) is the foundation of what therapeutic technique?

Answer 15

Ellis’ Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Question 16

Ellis defines ______________ as “must,” “should,” “ought,” and “have to.”

Answer 16

Irrational Beliefs

Question 17

REBT consists of what?

(clue: ABCDE)

Answer 17

Activating event
Belief
Consequence
Dispute the belief
Effect

Question 18

Active disputation, rational emotive imagery, skills training, and systematic desensitization are part of what therapeutic technique?

Answer 18

Ellis’ Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Question 19

The identification and replacement of negative cognitions and thoughts is part of…

Answer 19

Beck’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Question 20

When you’re modifying assumptions that maintain behaviors and emotions you’re using what technique?

Answer 20

Beck’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Question 21

Beck’s work with CBT was based on an understanding of what 3 principles?

Answer 21

1) cognitive schemas
2) automatic thoughts (negative views of self, world, and future)
3) cognitive distortions

Question 22

Which is NOT a cognitive distortion

Answer 22

A) Arbitrary Interference
B) Selective Abstraction
C) Cognitive Defusion
D) Dichotomous thinking
E) Personalization
F) Emotional Reasoning (“I feel this so it is”)

Question 23

This “active, structured approach” uses SOCRATIC QUESTIONING and COLLABORATIVE EMPIRICISM

Answer 23

Beck’s Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Question 24

The FIVE stages of CBT are:

Answer 24

1) Reattribution
2) Behavioral Rehearsal
3) Guided Imagery/Discovery
4) Activity Scheduling
5) Exposure