Deck 5: Cognitive Approaches to Therapy

Question 1

Which theory did Albert Ellis determine was inefficient in treating mental disorders?

A) Psychoanalytic
B) Adlerian
C) Behavior therapy
D) Cognitive therapy

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Your REBT therapist asks you to sit down in the aisle of a grocery store. Most likely, this is which technique?

A) A shame attacking exercise
B) Disputing
C) Playing your emotional control card
D) Changing one's language

Answer 2

A

Question 3

REBT therapists believe that a warm therapist/client relationship is necessary for therapeutic change.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which candidate would Ellis state is a good candidate for REBT?

A) One with autism
B) One who is mentally retarded
C) One in the manic state of bipolar disorder
D) One who has depression

Question 5

Which is NOT one of Ellis' 11 Irrational beliefs?

A) The belief that since a past event once had a significant impact on us, that it will always have that impact.
B) That if one does not reach one's personal and career goals, life has little value.
C) That avoiding life's challenges in better than seeking challenges.
D) That one must have love and approval from all significant people.

Question 6

Gwendolyn states that losing her job was the worst thing that could have happened to her. Her therapist points out that it is her belief about losing that job that is resulting in her negative feelings and that if she could dispute this belief she would feel better. Gwendolyn's therapist most likely practices what therapeutic model?

A) Reality/choice therapy
B) Adlerian
C) REBT
D) Beck's cognitive therapy

Question 7

What is the goal of cognitive restructuring?

A) To change maladaptive thought patterns to more adaptive thought patterns.
B) To help the client realized their maladaptive thoughts.
C) To change unrealistic goals to realistic goals
D) To help the client understand the difference between his or her true self and ideal self.

Question 8

REBT supports the significance of early childhood experiences.

Question 9

A therapist asks a client "what is the evidence for the belief that you hold?" This is what cognitive therapy technique?

A) Socratic questioning
B) Disputing
C) Guided discovery
D) Rationalizing

Question 10

REBT is a long term therapy, usually lasting at least 20 sessions.

Question 11

Elizabeth's therapist asks her "What if you do fail your test?" He is most likely using which cognitive technique?

A) Decentering
B) Decatastrophizing
C) Socratic questioning
D) Guided discovery

Question 12

Which theorist did not develop his own form of therapy?

A) Albert Ellis
B) Albert Bandura
C) Donald Meichenbaum
D) Aaron Beck

Question 13

When was cognitive therapy developed?

A) 1920s and 1930s
B) 1940s
C) 1950s and 1960s
D) 1970s

Question 14

In cognitive therapy, what does collaborative empiricism mean?

A) That therapy will only progress if the client trusts the therapist completely.
B) That there must be a warm relationship between the therapist and the client.
C) That the therapist and client work together to develop treatment goals.
D) That the therapist must collaborate with other therapists to truly be effective.

Question 15

According to Beck, which is NOT true of cognitive schema?

A) They are developed during childhood
B) They help us to organize and interpret information.
C) There are no disadvantages to having cognitive schema.
D) They influence the way that we think about the world.

Question 16

Aaron Beck conducted the studies of modeling using a Bobo doll.

Question 17

Which did Ellis say is true about healthy psychological development?

A) That healthy people do not waste time philosophizing but thing only about reality.
B) That healthy people are more concerned with their own self-respect than the approval of others.
C) That healthy people see the world for how it truly is.
D) That health people rarely exist because there is too much irrational thinking.

Question 18

Aaron Beck was named one of the top five most influential psychotherapists by The American Psychologist.

Question 19

Bradford's therapist works to help him see the influence that his thoughts have on his feelings and behavior. What type of therapy is Bradford most likely receiving?

A) Cognitive therapy
B) Behavior therapy
C) Stress inoculation therapy
D) REBT

Question 20

Why did both City College of New York and Teachers college, Columbia refuse to allow Ellis to teach at their universities?

A) They were prejudiced against his Jewish heritage.
B) He demonstrated unethical tendencies in his research.
C) He had not earned a medical degree.
D) The felt that his writings on sex were controversial.

Question 21

What are the two goals of DBT?

Question 22

Acceptance and commitment therapy bases its name from one of its core messages: accept what is out of your personal control; instead commit to action that which improves and enriches your life.

Question 23

Who were two of the major contributors to Ellis' development of rational emotive behavior therapy and what were their contributions?

Question 24

What are the six core ACT therapeutic processes?

Question 25

Describe the role of the therapist and the ACT therapeutic relationship.

Question 26

What was Beck's theory for how schemas were related to the development of depression?

Question 27

What is the devil's advocate technique?

Question 28

MBCT is an 8-week group treatment program based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's (1994) 8 week, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

Question 29

Beck uses the three questions modified from Socrates to help clients change their negative thinking. What are the three questions the therapist asks?

Question 30

Cognitive therapy has three underlying assumptions. What are these?

Question 31

Outline the ABC theory of personality including D and E as well. Give an example that outlines each aspect of the theory.

Question 32

The MBCT therapist presents clients with an alternative to experiential avoidance via a number of therapeutic interventions.

Question 33

Describe the cognitive model for panic disorder.

Question 34

The goal of ACT is to help clients create and maintain consistent, stable environments, in which they are comfortable with change.

Question 35

Compare/Contrast Ellis's and Beck's Approach to Therapy.

Question 36

What is the goal of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy?

Question 37

Which of Freud's theories did Albert Bandura's research challenge?

Question 38

Dialectical behavior therapy is a form of behavior therapy that was developed specifically as a treatment approach for chronically suicidal individuals who met the criteria for borderline personality disorder.

Question 39

What are the five critical functions of DBT?

Question 40

What are the cognitive therapist's goals?