Chapter 10- Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Question 1

Rational emotive behavior therapy

Answer 1

People contribute to their own psychological problems, as well as specific symptoms. Based on the assumption that cognitions, emotions, and behaviors interact significantly and have a reciprocal cause and effect

Question 2

Therapeutic goal

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Clients minimizing their emotional disturbances and self-defeating behavior by acquiring a more realistic, workable, and compassionate philosophy of life

Question 3

Therapist’s function and role

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Show clients how they have incorpated irrational absolutes in her life. Then they demonstrate how clients are keeping their emotional disturbances active by continuing to think illogically. The 3rd step is to help clients change their thinking and minimize irrational ideas. 4th step encourage clients to develop a rational philosophy of life

Question 4

Clients experience in therapy

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Focused on here-and-now and clients’ ability to change patterns of thing and emotions that they constructed earlier

Question 5

Relationship between therapist and client

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Warm relationship is not required-respectful relationship is recommended

Question 6

Practice of Rational Emotive Therapy

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Multimodal and integrative. (Cognitive, emotive, behavioral, and interpersonal therapies)

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Cognitive Methods

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Disputing irrational beliefs, doing cognitive homework, biobliotherapy, changing one’s language, psychoeducational methods

Question 8

Emotive Therapies

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Rational emotive imagery, humor, role playing, shame-attacking exercises

Question 9

Rational Emotive Imagery

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Form of intense mental practice designed to establish new emotional patterns in place of disruptive ones by thinking in healthy ways

Question 10

Shame-attacking exercises

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Can refuse to feel ashamed by telling ourselves that it is not catastrophic if someone thinks we are foolish

Question 11

Beck’s Cognitive Therapy

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Specificity of Ct allows evidence-based therapists to link assessment, conceptualization and treatment strategies. Depression could result from negative thinking but it could also be precipitated by genetic, neurobiological, or environmental changes

Question 12

Negative Cognitive Triad

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Negative views of the self(self-criticism), the world(pessimism) and the future(hopelessness). This maintained depression, even when negative thoughts were not the original cause of an episode of depression

Question 13

Generic cognitive model

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Links psychobiological difficulties with adaptive human responses. “Has the potential to be the only empirically supported general theory of psychopathology

Question 14

Common cognitive distortions

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Arbitrary inferences, selective abstraction, over generalizations, magnification and minimization, personalization, labeling and mislabeling, dichotomous thinking

Question 15

basic principles of CT

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Perceives psychological problems as an exaggeration of adaptive responses resulting from commonplace cognitive distortions

Question 16

Collaborative Empiricism

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Through a reflecting questioning process, the cognitive therapist collaborates with clients in testing the validity of their cognitions

Question 17

Client-Therapist relationship

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Beck believes that effective therapists must combine empathy and sensitivity with technical competence

Question 18

Treatment approaches

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Thought records
Automatic thoughts
Action plan

Question 19

Padesky’s strengths-based cognitive behavior therapy

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An active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that would be missed

Question 20

Basic principle of SB-CBT

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Therapists should be knowledgable about evidence-based approaches pertaining to client issues discussed in therapy, clients are asked to make observations and describe the details of their life experiences so what is developed in therapy basses in the real data of clients’ live and therapists and clients collaborate in testing beliefs and experimenting with new behaviors

Question 21

Strengths of SB-CBT

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Add-on for classic CBT, 4-step model to build resilience and other positive qualities, the new paradigm of chronic difficulties and personality disorders

Question 22

Meichenbaum’s cognitive behavior modification

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focuses on changing the client’s self-talk. Clients must notice how they think, feel, and behave and the impact they have on others

Question 23

How behavior changes

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1. Self-observation
2. Starting a new internal dialogue
3. Learning new skills

Question 24

Stress inoculation training

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Individuals are given opportunities to deal with relatively mild stress stimuli in successful ways, and they gradually develop a tolerance for stronger stimuli. Based on the assumption that we can affect our ability to cope with stress by modifying our beliefs and self-statements

Question 25

Relapse prevention

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procedures for dealing with the inevitable setbacks clients are likely to experience as they apply what they are learning to daily life