CBT Exam 1 Top Exam Questions and
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Three orientations (and individuals)from which cognitive behavior therapy emerged. - ✔✔-1. Rational
emotive behavior therapy (albert ellis)
2. Cognitive therapy: Aaron beck
3. Behaviorism: Skinner, Pavlov, Wolpe
Ellis' ABCDE model of emotional disturbance - ✔✔-A: activating experiences
B: beliefs
C: consequences
D: disputes
E: effects
-Demanding nature of beleifs cause the problem. The less demanding and more flexible beliefs lead to
healthy emotions and helpful behaviors.
- Changing beliefs is the real work of therapy and achieve through disputing the beliefs
-Goal: reduce frequency, duration, and intensity of irrational beleifs by developing three insights:
1. we upset ourselves by holding inflexible beliefs
2. we continue to feel upset because we cling to our irrational beliefs
3: the only way to get better is working hard to change our beliefs through practice
Three basic "musts" of REBT - ✔✔-1. I must do well and win the approval of others for my performances
or else I am no good. This belief often leads to anxiety, depression, shame, and guilt
2. Other people must treat me considerably, fairly and kindly, and in exactly the way I want them to
treat me. If they don't, they are no good and they deserve to be condemned and punished. This belief
often leads to rage, passive-aggression, and acts of violence
3. I must get what I want, when I want it, and I must not get what I don't want. It's terrible if I don't get
what I want, and I can't stand for it. The third belief often leads to self-pity and procrastination
, how is the real work of therapy achieved in REBT> - ✔✔-1. changing beliefs is the real work of therapy
and achieved by therapist disputing irrational beleifs
three types of acceptance supported in REBT - ✔✔-1. unconditional self acceptance
2. unconditional other acceptance
3. unconditional life acceptance
(doesn't always work out as I want. Not perfect)
Target of Beck's cognitive therapy - ✔✔-changing client's thoughts and thereby, changing negative
emotions
explain beck's cognitive triad and the content specific hypothesis - ✔✔-Cognitive triad: depression is
marked by negative assessment/thoughts of self, world, and future
Content-specific: each emotional disorder can be characterized by cogntive content specific to that
disorder (guides the development of interventions and assessments specific to that diagnosis)
explain aspects of CBT that make it so amenable to research - ✔✔-1. most researched
psychotherapeutic approach
2. each approach has specific techniques that can be tested for effectiveness
3. collaborative, empirical approach to identify and resolve problems
4. comparable to scientific investigation
5. collecting data
6. formulating hypotheses
7. testing and revising hypothesis
Define EBP in APA - ✔✔-Evidence-based practice is the integration of the best available research with
clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences. The purpose of EBP
is to promote effective psychological practice and enhance public health by applying empirically
supported principles of psychological assessment, case formulation, therapeutic relationship, and
intervention
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