Question 1

The cognitive behavioural approach to therapy stresses:

Accepted Answer

A)  support, understanding, warmth, and empathy. 
B)  awareness, unfinished business, impasse, and experiencing. 
C)  thinking, assessing, deciding, analysing, and doing. 
D)  subjectivity, existential anxiety, self-actualisation, and being. 
A)  support, understanding, warmth, and empathy. 
B)  awareness, unfinished business, impasse, and experiencing. 
C)  thinking, assessing, deciding, analysing, and doing. 
D)  subjectivity, existential anxiety, self-actualisation, and being. C

Question 2

The use of constructive questions, the importance of identifying client imagery and metaphors for change, and an emphasis on client strengths are innovations that formed the foundation of which therapeutic approach?

Accepted Answer

A)  Existential 
B)  Client centred 
C)  Psychoanalytic 
D)  Strengths-based cognitive behavioural 
A)  Existential 
B)  Client centred 
C)  Psychoanalytic 
D)  Strengths-based cognitive behavioural D

Question 3

Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification focuses on changing a client's
self-talk.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

In Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification, what is given primary importance?

Accepted Answer

A)  Using emotive techniques 
B)  Collaborative empiricism 
C)  Automatic thoughts 
D)  Inner speech 
A)  Using emotive techniques 
B)  Collaborative empiricism 
C)  Automatic thoughts 
D)  Inner speech

Question 5

Strengths-based CBT practitioners ask clients for to describe their experiences, both positive and negative.

Accepted Answer

A)  imagery and dreams 
B)  imagery and metaphors 
C)  dreams and metaphors 
D)  metaphors and insight 
A)  imagery and dreams 
B)  imagery and metaphors 
C)  dreams and metaphors 
D)  metaphors and insight

Question 6

Which of the following is not true about role playing in REBT?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is a way of surfacing unfinished business. 
B)  It involves emotional components. 
C)  It involves behavioural components. 
D)  It helps reveal irrational beliefs. 
A)  It is a way of surfacing unfinished business. 
B)  It involves emotional components. 
C)  It involves behavioural components. 
D)  It helps reveal irrational beliefs.

Question 7

The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings is known as:

Accepted Answer

A)  labelling and mislabelling. 
B)  overgeneralisation. 
C)  arbitrary inferences. 
D)  selective abstraction. 
A)  labelling and mislabelling. 
B)  overgeneralisation. 
C)  arbitrary inferences. 
D)  selective abstraction.

Question 8

Which of the following is not part of the five-step treatment procedure used in a coping skills programme?

Accepted Answer

A)  Exposing clients to anxiety-provoking situations by means of role playing and imagery 
B)  Evaluating the anxiety level of the client by using both physiological and psychological tests 
C)  Teaching clients to become aware of the anxiety-provoking cognitions they experience in stressful situations 
D)  Helping clients examine their thoughts by reevaluating their self-statements 
A)  Exposing clients to anxiety-provoking situations by means of role playing and imagery 
B)  Evaluating the anxiety level of the client by using both physiological and psychological tests 
C)  Teaching clients to become aware of the anxiety-provoking cognitions they experience in stressful situations 
D)  Helping clients examine their thoughts by reevaluating their self-statements

Question 9

REBT hypothesises that we keep ourselves emotionally disturbed by the process of self- indoctrination.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Cognitive behavioural group therapy stresses the importance of homework outside of the therapy session.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

There is not a very good fit between cognitive behaviour therapy and multicultural therapy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The main idea of is that active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that otherwise would be missed.

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive therapy 
B)  strengths-based CBT 
C)  Gestalt therapy 
D)  existential therapy 
A)  cognitive therapy 
B)  strengths-based CBT 
C)  Gestalt therapy 
D)  existential therapy

Question 13

In cognitive therapy, techniques are designed to:

Accepted Answer

A)  assist clients in substituting rational beliefs for irrational beliefs. 
B)  help clients experience their feelings more intensely. 
C)  assist individuals to end self-defeating cognitions and to teach people how to acquire a rational approach to living. 
D)  enable clients to deal with their existential loneliness. 
A)  assist clients in substituting rational beliefs for irrational beliefs. 
B)  help clients experience their feelings more intensely. 
C)  assist individuals to end self-defeating cognitions and to teach people how to acquire a rational approach to living. 
D)  enable clients to deal with their existential loneliness.

Question 14

In strengths-based CBT, identified in early therapy sessions can provide a wealth of information to help therapist and client collaboratively integrate strengths into case conceptualisation and treatment.

Accepted Answer

A)  positive interests and weaknesses 
B)  obstacles and positive interests 
C)  negative interests and strengths 
D)  positive interests and strengths 
A)  positive interests and weaknesses 
B)  obstacles and positive interests 
C)  negative interests and strengths 
D)  positive interests and strengths

Question 15

Which of the following statements does not reflect one of Ellis's three basic musts?

Accepted Answer

A)  'I must do well and be loved and approved by others.' 
B)  'Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well.' 
C)  'I must be kind to others or else I won't be a good person.' 
D)  'The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just, providing me with all that I want in life.' 
A)  'I must do well and be loved and approved by others.' 
B)  'Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well.' 
C)  'I must be kind to others or else I won't be a good person.' 
D)  'The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just, providing me with all that I want in life.'

Question 16

The role of the client in rational emotive behaviour therapy is like that of a:

Accepted Answer

A)  co-therapist. 
B)  passive observer. 
C)  student or learner. 
D)  partner. 
A)  co-therapist. 
B)  passive observer. 
C)  student or learner. 
D)  partner.

Question 17

All of the following are theoretical assumptions of Beck's CT, except:

Accepted Answer

A)  people's thought processes are accessible to introspection. 
B)  people's beliefs have highly personal meanings. 
C)  people must re-experience the past and process their feelings before change can happen. 
D)  people can discover these meanings themselves rather than being taught or having them interpreted by the therapist. 
A)  people's thought processes are accessible to introspection. 
B)  people's beliefs have highly personal meanings. 
C)  people must re-experience the past and process their feelings before change can happen. 
D)  people can discover these meanings themselves rather than being taught or having them interpreted by the therapist.

Question 18

One of Beck's early contributions was to recognise that regardless of the cause of depression, once people became depressed, their thinking reflected what Beck referred to as the negative cognitive triad: negative views of the self, the world, and the future.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification shares with REBT and Beck's cognitive therapy the assumption that distressing emotions are often the result of maladaptive thoughts.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

In the strengths-based CBT four-step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage of therapy is that the client:

Accepted Answer

A)  sets a goal to 'be resilient in the face of challenges'. 
B)  avoids exploring possible high-risk stressful situations. 
C)  learns that a lapse in willpower will have catastrophic results. 
D)  will undergo hypnosis. 
A)  sets a goal to 'be resilient in the face of challenges'. 
B)  avoids exploring possible high-risk stressful situations. 
C)  learns that a lapse in willpower will have catastrophic results. 
D)  will undergo hypnosis.

The cognitive behavioural approach to therapy stresses:

The use of constructive questions, the importance of identifying client imagery and metaphors for change, and an emphasis on client strengths are innovations that formed the foundation of which therapeutic approach?

Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification focuses on changing a client's self-talk.

In Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification, what is given primary importance?

Strengths-based CBT practitioners ask clients for to describe their experiences, both positive and negative.

Which of the following is not true about role playing in REBT?

The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings is known as:

Which of the following is not part of the five-step treatment procedure used in a coping skills programme?

REBT hypothesises that we keep ourselves emotionally disturbed by the process of self- indoctrination.

Cognitive behavioural group therapy stresses the importance of homework outside of the therapy session.

There is not a very good fit between cognitive behaviour therapy and multicultural therapy.

The main idea of is that active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that otherwise would be missed.

In cognitive therapy, techniques are designed to:

In strengths-based CBT, identified in early therapy sessions can provide a wealth of information to help therapist and client collaboratively integrate strengths into case conceptualisation and treatment.

Which of the following statements does not reflect one of Ellis's three basic musts?

The role of the client in rational emotive behaviour therapy is like that of a:

All of the following are theoretical assumptions of Beck's CT, except:

One of Beck's early contributions was to recognise that regardless of the cause of depression, once people became depressed, their thinking reflected what Beck referred to as the negative cognitive triad: negative views of the self, the world, and the future.

Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification shares with REBT and Beck's cognitive therapy the assumption that distressing emotions are often the result of maladaptive thoughts.

In the strengths-based CBT four-step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage of therapy is that the client:

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Ethical Issues in Counselling Practice

Psychoanalytic Therapy

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Exam 10: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

The cognitive behavioural approach to therapy stresses:

The use of constructive questions, the importance of identifying client imagery and metaphors for change, and an emphasis on client strengths are innovations that formed the foundation of which therapeutic approach?

Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification focuses on changing a client's self-talk.

In Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification, what is given primary importance?

Strengths-based CBT practitioners ask clients for to describe their experiences, both positive and negative.

Which of the following is not true about role playing in REBT?

The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings is known as:

Which of the following is not part of the five-step treatment procedure used in a coping skills programme?

REBT hypothesises that we keep ourselves emotionally disturbed by the process of self- indoctrination.

Cognitive behavioural group therapy stresses the importance of homework outside of the therapy session.

There is not a very good fit between cognitive behaviour therapy and multicultural therapy.

The main idea of is that active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that otherwise would be missed.

In cognitive therapy, techniques are designed to:

In strengths-based CBT, identified in early therapy sessions can provide a wealth of information to help therapist and client collaboratively integrate strengths into case conceptualisation and treatment.

Which of the following statements does not reflect one of Ellis's three basic musts?

The role of the client in rational emotive behaviour therapy is like that of a:

All of the following are theoretical assumptions of Beck's CT, except:

One of Beck's early contributions was to recognise that regardless of the cause of depression, once people became depressed, their thinking reflected what Beck referred to as the negative cognitive triad: negative views of the self, the world, and the future.

Donald Meichenbaum's cognitive behaviour modification shares with REBT and Beck's cognitive therapy the assumption that distressing emotions are often the result of maladaptive thoughts.

In the strengths-based CBT four-step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage of therapy is that the client:

Introduction and Overview

The Counsellor: Person and Professional

Ethical Issues in Counselling Practice

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Adlerian Therapy

Existential Therapy

Person-Centered Therapy

Gestalt Therapy

Behaviour Therapy

Choice Theoryreality Therapy

Feminist Therapy

Postmodern Approaches

Family Systems Therapy

An Integrative Perspective

Filters