Chapter 1: Introduction to CBT

Question 1

When is a brief mood check conducted?

Answer 1

Beginning of every session

Question 2

What helps a clinician keep track of a client’s mood over time?

Answer 2

Brief mood check

Question 3

What is a standardized self-report inventories which is used to assess a patient’s mood?

Answer 3

Brief mood check

Question 4

What is a bridge from the prior session?

Answer 4

Brief summary of the most important issues presented during prior session.

Question 5

Why is a bridge form the prior session important?

Answer 5

Aids patient’s to remember what was important ensuring therapist and client on same page

Question 6

What is it called when a therapist and client together recognize and prioritize small list of topics in order to discuss?

Answer 6

Agenda setting

Question 7

What is a realistic idea of the number of topics that can be covered in agenda setting?

Answer 7

Two to three

Question 8

What must be kept in mind during agenda setting?

Answer 8

Treatment goals

Question 9

Where do the psychodynamic views stem from and what do they emphasize?

Answer 9

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory focusing on the unconscious (unknown) and drives (sexual function/urges).

Question 10

What is personality constructed of?

Answer 10

Three structures: id, ego, and superego.

Question 11

What is the unconscious structure that involves basic drives and instincts?

Answer 11

Id

Question 12

What is the conscious structure controlling id’s demands and considers reality?

Answer 12

Ego

Question 13

What structure involves/encompasses our internalized thoughts regarding morality and wrong; represents caregiver/parental values and society’s standards?

Answer 13

Superego

Question 14

What are the 5 stages of development according to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory?

Answer 14

OAPLG
Oral (birth to two), anal (two to three), phallic (three to five: oedipus/electra complex), latent (lasts until puberty), and genital (eleven to eighteen)

Question 15

What are common characteristics across psychodynamic models?

Answer 15

Focus on past- early psychodynamic milestones
Focus of treatment- emotions and relationships- specifically attachment of lack of attachment to parent figures
Open-ended- no time limit with regard to length of treatment- change takes time

Question 16

T or f? Since memories are unconscious, the therapist must utilize indirect methods/ways to discover repressed memories?

Answer 16

T

Question 17

What are some ways therapists can discover repressed memories?

Answer 17

Free association
Dream interpretation transference

Question 18

What is true regarding repressed memories?

Answer 18

Unconscious memories are painful, and the client will most probably have defense mechanisms to resist discovering these painful memories

Question 19

T or f? Progress is monitored/analyzed by the worker?

Answer 19

T

Question 20

T or f? The therapist is the expert.

Answer 20

T

Question 21

T or f? Relationship between worker and client is thought to reflect relationship patterns client engages in outside the therapeutic context, and
therefore presents opportunities for change.

Answer 21

T

Question 22

What is transference?

Answer 22

An individual’s responding to someone in
the present as if that person were an
important figure from the past

Question 23

When the patient develops the ability to
become aware of ____________, he or
she can begin to feel and relate differently.

Answer 23

distortions

Question 24

What are feelings clinicians
experience in relation to their patients,
also facilitates treatment?

Answer 24

Countertransference

Question 25

Fill in the blank: When the therapist is able to appreciate why a certain ________ has arisen during a session, it provides him or her with a view of that patient’s psychic world.

Answer 25

Feeling

Question 26

What is the main responsibility of the psychodynamic clinician?

Answer 26

To make contact with and
comprehend the patient’s subjective inner world in order to engage in an interpretive examination of it.

Question 27

What is the main goal of psychodynamic therapy?

Answer 27

To help the patient identify and resolve unconscious conflicts and fears that have compromised interpersonal relationships and personal achievement.

Question 28

How does CBT differ from psychodynamic approaches?

Answer 28

Focus on the “here and now, focus of treatment—specific problems client is facing in daily living vs. gaining insight, use of time limits, and use of structured sessions

Question 29

What are other ways CBT differs from psychodynamic approaches?

Answer 29

Progress is monitored by client and is part of intervention
*“Homework” assignments outside treatment sessions
* Relationship between worker and client—not a focal
point of treatment
* Client is expert