Cognitive Therapiea For Mood Disorders

Question 1

What does Rational Emotive Therapy (Ellis, 1984) attempt to do?

Answer 1

Attempts to REPLACE IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS with RATIONAL THOUGHTS

Question 2

What is the first stage of RET?

Answer 2

Therapist makes the sufferer aware of their self-defeating and irrational thoughts

SELF-AWARENESS

Question 3

What is the second stage of RET?

Answer 3

Therapist then CHALLENGES the irrational belief through CONFRONTATION and ARGUMENT

Question 4

If stage two of RET works, what is stage three?

Answer 4

IRRATIONAL BELIEF is REPLACED by a MORE RATIONAL one

Question 5

What is the fourth and final stage of RET?

Answer 5

INCREASE in SELF-ESTEEM and DECREASE in NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

Question 6

How does Cognitive therapy aim to treat mood disorders?

Answer 6

Aims to CHALLENGE and REMOVE the COGNITIVE TRIAD (dysfunctional thinking) of NEGATIVE THOUGHTS shown by depressed patients

Question 7

How long is a typical course of Cognitive therapy

Answer 7

FOUR PHASES spread over 20 SESSIONS in a 10 WEEK period

Question 8

What is phase one of Cognitive therapy?

Answer 8

INCREASING CONFIDENCE and ELEVATING MOOD (more likely to engage in the therapy)

Question 9

What is phase two of Cognitive therapy?

Answer 9

IDENTIFY and CHALLENGING AUTOMATIC negative thoughts (argument and rationality)

Question 10

What is phase three of Cognitive therapy?

Answer 10

IDENTIFYING OTHER negative thoughts

Question 11

What is phase four of Cognitive therapy?

Answer 11

CHANGING KEY negative ATTITUDES, THOUGHTS and BELIEFS

Question 12

How do cognitive therapies aim to treat depression?

Answer 12

By CHALLENGING and REMOVING the NEGATIVE THOUGHTS and by helping people to SOLVE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS ain’t whir lives in a POSITIVE WAY