Module 9 - Cognitive Behavioural Approaches Flashcards
What is the Cognitive Behavioural Approach(aka Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)?
Active, structured treatments that focus on how interactions with the outside world create multiple reactions/interactions with our internal world.
Explain the term “Vicious Circles”.
A person creates self-fulfilling prophecies that then maintain the distorted thinking and dysfunctional behaviour. Identifying and breaking unhelpful circles for individuals is part of the cognitive behavioural treatment.
Explain “automatic thoughts”.
Thoughts we have that our not conscious. (e.g if you’ve burnt yourself on the hob, your cognition knows it hot, you don’t need to consciously draw on that every time you go in the kitchen.) Automatic thoughts can combine with the schemas we develop, and all of us, to some degree or another, can develop cognitive bias.
All or nothing thinking, selective abstraction, emotional reasoning, and tunnel vision are all examples of…
Cognitive biases relevant to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy(CBT).
Explain the four-step aim for cognitive restructuring in clinical cognitive behaviour treatments.
- Identify automatic thoughts. 2. address cognitive distortions. 3. Emply Socratic questions. 4. accept rational conclusion.
What are the three core questions that guide all assessments in cognitive behaviour treatments(CBT).
- What is the problem that person would like help with?
- What are the situations, thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and physical sensations associated with the problem?
- What are the immediate and long term consequences of the problem?
What does the term formulation refer to? (as it applies to CBT).`
an understanding of the patient’s identified problem and of factors that have contributed to and/or are maintaining, the problem.
How does the downward spiral formulation diagram differ from the vicious cycle formulation diagram?
The vicious cycle refers to how the interactions of factors loops back to perpetuate and reinforce problems, whereas the downward spiral formulation diagram illustrates more of a domino effect.
What are some of the big reasons why cognitive behaviour treatments may not work?
Client-therapist relationship, clint motivation, manualised approaches, treatment length and form.
True or false, in Beck’s description of a Cognitive Behavioural Approach(CBA) includes the therapist adopting an expert stance.
False.
Which of the following is not included in the Hot Cross Bun model for approaching the problem? physical sensations, past experiences, behaviour, or cognition/thoughts.
past experiences.
What is the main aim of a cognitive behavioural assessment?
To develop a shared understanding of the problem.
What is the name for the research design we often see used in order to determine if a cognitive behavioural intervention is effective?
Randomised control trial.
