Exam 10: Cognitive Therapies

When Jim was a child his parents regularly told him he was stupid and problematic. Earlier this year Jim broke up with his fiancé and felt as though he would never be loved again. When Thomas was a child he was occasionally told he was loved. Thomas applied to and was rejected from a number of graduate school programs. Thomas felt it was quite unfortunate that he did not get into graduate school, and he was quite displeased. He did, however, recognize that he could apply again next year. -In the preceding paragraph,which of the following would be considered consequences in REBT?

Early in the therapy,a cognitive processing therapist typically asks clients to write an impact statement of how their trauma affected them in order to:

After many attempts at completing his REBT homework assignment of participating more in class discussions,Tyler complained that it was just too hard,and that he wasn't sure that he wanted to try any longer.An REBT therapist would most likely respond by doing each of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the therapies listed would most likely posit that,with respect to rules for living,individuals possess too powerful propensities to follow irrational beliefs for there not to be rules?

An REBT therapist is most likely to begin therapy by:

Jake is feeling so upset that he is having trouble sleeping. He believes that he is stupid as a result of having done poorly on his recent statistics exam and that he should drop out of school because he will never be able to be a social worker. -In structuring Jake's cognitive therapy,Beck would ordinarily limit therapy to:

Jake is feeling so upset that he is having trouble sleeping. He believes that he is stupid as a result of having done poorly on his recent statistics exam and that he should drop out of school because he will never be able to be a social worker. -The first goal of Beck's cognitive therapy with Jake would be to:

Which of the following has NOT been substantiated by meta-analytic studies of cognitive therapy?

Distancing is a therapeutic method intended to:

A rational-emotive view of the therapeutic relationship would include all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following statements is probably FALSE regarding the ideal therapeutic relationship in REBT?

The REBT notion that there are virtually no legitimate reasons for rational people to make themselves neurotic,hysterical,or emotionally disturbed is very similar to which school of philosophy (that emphasized the control of life through reason)?

Controlled cognitive therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)have largely shown that:

A cognitive therapist asks a patient to say what he assumes would happen if his worst case scenario actually happened.The patient says,"If I fail this test,I'll never get into graduate school." The next step in decatastrophizing would be to help the patient:

The final phase of cognitive processing therapy typically includes:

Meta-analysis of the short- and long-term effects of CBT for pathological gambling compared to no treatment has found:

When Jim was a child his parents regularly told him he was stupid and problematic. Earlier this year Jim broke up with his fiancé and felt as though he would never be loved again. When Thomas was a child he was occasionally told he was loved. Thomas applied to and was rejected from a number of graduate school programs. Thomas felt it was quite unfortunate that he did not get into graduate school, and he was quite displeased. He did, however, recognize that he could apply again next year. -Which of the following would Ellis LEAST likely employ in helping Jim?

REBT makes the same irrational mistake that is characteristic of many clients and many true believers -- overgeneralization.This criticism of REBT would be leveled by:

Several meta-analytic studies of cognitive-behavioral therapy for children and adolescents have documented all of the following EXCEPT:

In a comprehensive meta-analysis on psychotherapy for depression,Robinson et al.(1990)found that: