Deck 15: Cognitive Psychotherapy

Question 1

According to Ellis' ABCDE model,"D" represents

A) a discussion of the feelings resulting from the client's irrational thoughts.
B) the drive with which the irrational thought is associated.
C) the domain of the client's life negatively influenced by the irrational thought.
D) a dispute of the client's irrational thoughts.

Answer 1

a dispute of the client's irrational thoughts.

Question 2

According to the cognitive approach to psychotherapy,psychological problems arise from

A) fixations at particular developmental stages in childhood.
B) classical or operant conditioning.
C) illogical thoughts or interpretations of events in our lives.
D) incongruence between the real self and the ideal self.

Answer 2

illogical thoughts or interpretations of events in our lives.

Question 3

Natalie,a psychotherapy client,is depressed about a recent breakup with her romantic partner.She believes that the breakup is entirely her fault,and that if she had done things differently,she wouldn't be alone now.This belief best exemplifies the cognitive thought distortion known as _____.

A) all-or-nothing thinking
B) catastrophizing
C) personalization
D) mental filtering

Answer 3

personalization

Question 4

_____ is considered a leader in the cognitive therapy movement.

A) Aaron Beck
B) Albert Ellis
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 5

Cognitive therapists

A) use the terms thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions to refer to cognitions.
B) believe that psychopathology results directly from the things that happen to us.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 6

Compared to psychodynamic psychotherapy,cognitive psychotherapy tends to

A) require a greater number of sessions.
B) emphasize the past rather than the present.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 7

Cognitive therapy

A) tends to be brief, structured, and targeted.
B) has become the prominent approach to psychotherapy in the early part of the 21st century.
C) represents a reaction against behavioral and psychodynamic approaches.
D) all of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is true regarding cognitive psychotherapy?

A) Cognitive psychotherapy is typically more structured and less spontaneous than humanistic psychotherapy.
B) Compared to behavioral psychotherapy, cognitive psychotherapy deemphasizes internal, mental processes.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 9

According to Ellis' ABCDE model,"C" represents _____.

A) cognition
B) emotional consequence
C) choice behavior
D) conditioned response

Question 10

The primary goal of cognitive psychotherapy is

A) observable behavior change via contingency management.
B) to make the unconscious conscious.
C) logical thinking.
D) self-actualization.

Question 11

Which of the following forms of therapy most strongly emphasizes the use of teaching as a therapy tool?

A) behavioral
B) psychodynamic
C) humanistic
D) cognitive

Question 12

The cognitive thought distortion defined as expecting the worst in the future when it is actually unlikely to occur is _____.

A) all-or-nothing thinking
B) catastrophizing
C) personalization
D) overgeneralization

Question 13

Since the 1980s,the popularity of cognitive psychotherapy among clinical psychologists has _____.

A) increased
B) remained constant
C) decreased slightly
D) decreased greatly

Question 14

Which of the following best describes the three-step process typically used by cognitive psychotherapists to revise a client's cognitions?

A) identify illogical thoughts; teach relaxation skills; countercondition illogical thoughts
B) identify illogical thoughts; challenge illogical thoughts; replace illogical thoughts with more logical thoughts
C) make unconscious illogical thoughts conscious; interpret illogical thoughts; work through illogical thoughts
D) identify illogical thoughts; reflect emotional content of illogical thoughts; empathize with difficulties caused by illogical thoughts

Question 15

The idea that the way we think about events determines the way we respond to them is a cornerstone of _____ therapy.

A) cognitive
B) behavioral
C) humanistic
D) psychodynamic

Question 16

There are two widely recognized pioneers of cognitive psychotherapy.Which of the following is NOT one of those pioneers?

A) William Miller
B) Aaron Beck
C) Albert Ellis
D) none of the above

Question 17

Homework assigned as a part of cognitive therapy

A) may be written.
B) may be behavioral.
C) will often be discussed at the subsequent session.
D) all of the above

Question 18

Aaron Beck has argued that the cognitive triad,which includes _____,is a powerful determinant of mental health and depression levels.

A) thoughts about the self
B) thoughts about the external world
C) thoughts about the future
D) all of the above

Question 19

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)is the therapy approach created by _____.

A) Albert Ellis
B) Aaron Beck
C) Donald Meichenbaum
D) B. F. Skinner

Question 20

_____ would likely have his patients compete an ABCDE chart,whereas _____ would likely have his patients complete a dysfunctional thought record.

A) George Harris; Martin Seligman
B) Albert Ellis; Aaron Beck
C) Martin Seligman; George Harris
D) Aaron Beck; Albert Ellis

Question 21

_____ can be defined as full engagement with one's own internal mental processes in a nonconfrontational way,which often involves a reduction in _____.

A) Mindfulness; acceptance
B) Metacognitive therapy; cognitive restructuring
C) Insight; transference
D) Mindfulness; experiential avoidance

Question 22

What are the five components of the ABCDE model?

Question 23

Whose name is most prominently associated with the form of cognitive therapy that uses Dysfunctional Thought Records?

Question 24

_____ refers to being able to pay attention in the present moment to whatever arises internally or externally,without becoming entangled or wishing things were otherwise.

A) Personalization
B) All-or-nothing thinking
C) Mindfulness
D) Commitment thinking

Question 25

The cognitive thought distortion defined as assuming excessive personal responsibility for negative events is _____.

A) all-or-nothing thinking
B) catastrophizing
C) personalization
D) overgeneralization

Question 26

_____ is based on the premise that people can become depressed,anxious,or otherwise psychologically unwell because of reactions to their own thoughts rather than their reactions to the things that happen to them.

Question 27

Name two of Beck's thought distortions.

Question 28

_____,defined as the ability to be able to pay attention in the present moment to whatever arises internally or externally,is at the core of third wave therapies.

Question 29

The use of cognitive psychotherapy for medical problems

A) has not yet occurred.
B) was a primary focus of the early work of Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, but has declined in recent decades.
C) has been empirically demonstrated to be more beneficial than prescription medications for ulcers, diabetes, and the flu.
D) has increased significantly in recent decades.

Question 30

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)is most closely associated with _____.

A) Marsha Linehan
B) Judith Beck
C) Steven Hayes
D) Aaron Beck

Question 31

Who created dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)?

Question 32

Dialectical behavior therapy,developed by Marsha Linehan,has been found effective in the treatment of _____.

A) spinal cord injuries
B) borderline personality disorder
C) individuals with work-related problems that do not qualify as mental disorders
D) obsessive-compulsive disorder

Question 33

_____ is a thought distortion in which the patient irrationally evaluates everything as either wonderful or terrible,with no middle ground.

Question 34

Who created rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)?

Question 35

Third-wave therapies

A) have mindfulness as a core component of their treatment approach.
B) include acceptance and commitment therapy and metacognitive therapy.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 36

What are the three parts of Beck's cognitive triad? How are the parts of the triad related to mental health?

Question 37

The term third-wave therapies is most often applied to _____.

A) therapies based on mindfulness and acceptance
B) brief psychodynamic therapies
C) therapies based on classical conditioning
D) play therapies

Question 38

Describe the five components of Ellis' ABCDE model.

Question 39

Empirical studies of cognitive therapy

A) demonstrate support for DBT's use with borderline personality disorder patients.
B) have found that homework enhances therapy outcome.
C) include support for the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders with ACT.
D) all of the above

Question 40

Cognitive psychotherapy

A) has not yet been found efficacious in the treatment of any specific psychological disorders.
B) emphasizes objective measures of psychotherapy outcome to a greater extent than psychodynamic psychotherapy.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 41

Define the common thought distortion known as overgeneralization,and offer a fictional example that a client might bring to a clinical psychologist.

Question 42

Briefly describe the two historical developments that contributed to the development of cognitive psychotherapy in the 1950s and 1960s.

Question 43

Define the common thought distortion known as mind reading,and offer a fictional example that a client might bring to a clinical psychologist.