Lecture Summaries

Question 1

Compare CBT Basics 1 from CBT Basics 2:

Answer 1

• CBT Basics 1 is pretreatment for individualized therapy, delivered in a group setting
• CBT Basics 2 is group CBT and mindfulness for when individual CBT is not available

Question 2

If all psychotherapeutic treatments were similarly efficacious, making empirically supported treatments essentially invalid, you would be in _____ of the Dodo bird hypothesis.

Answer 2

support

Question 3

If it is understood that psychotherapeutic treatments vary in efficacy, rendering empirically supported therapies valid, you would be in ______ of the Dodo bird hypothesis.

Answer 3

rejection

Question 4

Compare primary outcomes from secondary outcomes concerning psychotherapy.

Answer 4

Primary outcomes focus on the core variable of treatment (depression) while secondary outcomes are not the focus of treatment (variables outside of depression, like quality of life)

Question 5

List 5 transdiagnostic models outside of the Unified Protocol by Bullis.

Answer 5

• Transdiagnostic Internet treatment for anxiety and depression (Titov)
• Transdiagnostic Internet-based maintenance treatment (Ebert)
• Transdiagnostic Psychodynamic treatment of anxiety disorders (Leichsenring)
• Transdiagnostic Model of Eating Disorders (Fairburn)
• Transdiagnostic Approach for anxiety disorders NOS (Shafran)

Question 6

List the 5 Therapeutic Principles of Change for Depression

Answer 6

1. Challenge cognitive appraisals and behavior with new experiences
2. Increase access to contingent positive reinforcement
3. Improve interpersonal social functioning
4. Improve marital, family and social environment to reduce the maintenance of depressive behaviors
5. Improve awareness, acceptance and regulation of emotion, promote change of maladaptive emotional responses

Question 7

List the 5 Therapeutic Principles of Change for Anxiety

Answer 7

1. Challenge misconceptions
2. Test validity of false beliefs through behavioral experiments
3. Use repeated exposure to the feared situation
4. Eliminate avoidance of feared situation
5. Improve skills for handling fear situation

Question 8

List the 3 Modules of the Transdiagnostic Approach for Anxiety Disorders NOS

Answer 8

1. Address emotion-driven behaviors
2. Correct catastrophic misinterpretations
3. Address hypervigilence to threat