Interventions

Question 1

Main Concept

Answer 1

Teach the client about negative triad

Question 2

Socratic Questioning:

Answer 2

Questioning allows the therapist to stimulate the client’s self-awareness, focus on the problem definition, expose the client’s
belief system, and challenge irrational beliefs while revealing the client’s cognitive processes.

Question 3

Reframing:

Answer 3

Thinking differently by “reframing” negative or untrue assumptions and thoughts into ones that promote adaptive behavior and lessen anxiety and depression

Question 4

Cognitive Restructuring:

Answer 4

Teaches the client to identify irrational, distorted, or maladaptive beliefs, question the evidence for the belief, and generate
alternative responses.

Question 5

Homework:

Answer 5

To assist with cognitive restructuring, clients are often assigned
homework. Typical CBT homework assignments may include activities in behavioral activation, monitoring automatic thoughts, reviewing the previous therapy session, and preparing for the next therapy session.

Question 6

Self-Monitoring:

Answer 6

Also called diary work, self-monitoring is used to record the
amount and degree of thoughts and behaviors. This provides the client and therapist with information regarding the degree of a client’s negative affirmations.

Question 7

Behavioral Experiments:

Answer 7

The experiment process includes experiencing, observing, reflecting, and planning. These steps are conducted through
thought testing, discovery, activity, and/or observation.

Question 8

Systematic Desensitization:

Answer 8

Systematic Desensitization pairs relaxation with exposure to something stressful. Clients are taught to relax in anxiety-producing situations.

Question 9

Anxiety Management Training:

Answer 9

Teaches skills for specific situations using imagery. The client practices relaxation until anxiety is reduced then continues with imagery.

Question 10

Assertiveness Training:

Answer 10

Teaches client to specify desires and needs using minimally effective responses to assert their position. Used with unassertive
or overly aggressive clients.

Question 11

Behavioral Activation:

Answer 11

Increases activity for depressed or passive clients by using activity scheduling and incentives.

Question 12

Communication Skills Training:

Answer 12

Used in couples therapy to help couples talk about feelings and problems.

Question 13

Downward Arrow:

Answer 13

Used to uncover underlying assumptions. “If this is true, what does it mean about you and your life?”

Question 14

Exposure:

Answer 14

The client faces fear stimuli without resorting to escape or avoidance maneuvers. Can be done in real life or with imagery

Question 15

Finding Alternatives:

Answer 15

Clients review all possible options and alternatives for either interpreting a situation or resolving a problem

Question 16

Labeling Distortions:

Answer 16

Teaches the client to recognize and label particular distortions in thinking that can lead to problems with interpretations of events.

Question 17

Mastery/Pleasure Ratings:

Answer 17

Clients use activity charts and rate mastery or the pleasure that they derive from the activity

Question 18

Opposite Action:

Answer 18

The client is encouraged to engage in behavior that is be counterintuitive or opposite to what she or he may feel at time (e.g., when feeling very angry say something kind or decent)

Question 19

Problem-Solving Training:

Answer 19

Teaches a step approach to orienting to the problem, problem definition, generation of alternatives, decision making and
solution implementation and verification of results

Question 20

Relaxation Training:

Answer 20

Teaches the client to relax muscles to condition a relaxation response to counter tension. Uses imagery, music, and other stimuli to assist in acquiring a response.

Question 21

Successive Approximation:

Answer 21

Client and therapist collaborate in developing a plan for the client to engage in steps that approximate an ultimate goal, to allow the client to have success at each step along the way to the goal.

Question 22

Three-Column Technique:

Answer 22

client collects automatic thoughts and lists the situation in which the thought occurred, the automatic thought, and the associated feelings

Question 23

Thought Record:

Answer 23

expands on the three-column technique, with columns to record alternative responses to the automatic thought and behavioral or
emotional outcomes of changing the thought