Chapter 1: Introduction to CBT Flashcards
When is a brief mood check conducted?
Beginning of every session
What helps a clinician keep track of a client’s mood over time?
Brief mood check
What is a standardized self-report inventories which is used to assess a patient’s mood?
Brief mood check
What is a bridge from the prior session?
Brief summary of the most important issues presented during prior session.
Why is a bridge form the prior session important?
Aids patient’s to remember what was important ensuring therapist and client on same page
What is it called when a therapist and client together recognize and prioritize small list of topics in order to discuss?
Agenda setting
What is a realistic idea of the number of topics that can be covered in agenda setting?
Two to three
What must be kept in mind during agenda setting?
Treatment goals
Where do the psychodynamic views stem from and what do they emphasize?
Freud’s psychoanalytic theory focusing on the unconscious (unknown) and drives (sexual function/urges).
What is personality constructed of?
Three structures: id, ego, and superego.
What is the unconscious structure that involves basic drives and instincts?
Id
What is the conscious structure controlling id’s demands and considers reality?
Ego
What structure involves/encompasses our internalized thoughts regarding morality and wrong; represents caregiver/parental values and society’s standards?
Superego
What are the 5 stages of development according to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory?
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)
What are common characteristics across psychodynamic models?
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
T or f? Since memories are unconscious, the therapist must utilize indirect methods/ways to discover repressed memories?
T
What are some ways therapists can discover repressed memories?
Free association
Dream interpretation transference
What is true regarding repressed memories?
Unconscious memories are painful, and the client will most probably have defense mechanisms to resist discovering these painful memories
T or f? Progress is monitored/analyzed by the worker?
T
T or f? The therapist is the expert.
T
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.
T
What is transference?
An individual’s responding to someone in
the present as if that person were an
important figure from the past
When the patient develops the ability to
become aware of ____________, he or
she can begin to feel and relate differently.
distortions
What are feelings clinicians
experience in relation to their patients,
also facilitates treatment?
Countertransference
