What Do You Know About CBT?
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CBT – or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – is a psychosocial intervention used primarily to treat mental disorders, focusing on the development of personal coping strategies for problems, unhelpful patterns, behaviours and emotional regulation. What do you know about it?
- 1.
- A.
Cognitive therapy is long-term
- B.
cognitive therapy centers on unconscious conflicts rooted in early childhood
- C.
Cognitive therapy is designed to alter maladaptive thought processes and beliefs
- D.
Cognitive therapy focuses on concrete behaviors that can be changed through conditioning principles
- 2.You are very upset, because your 3-year relationship is breaking up. At one point, you tell your rational-emotive therapist, Albert Ellis, that you cannot live without your romantic partner. Ellis is most likely to reply
- A.
And he probably cannot live without you, either
- B.
So why don't you go into counseling with your partner?
- C.
Who says that you will die if your relationship breaks up?
- D.
Life is so unfair!
- 3.Compared with Ellis's Rational-Emotive therapy, Beck's cognitive therapy is
- A.
Less successful
- B.
Gentler and more collaborative
- C.
More behaviorally-oriented
- D.
Less focused on changing cognitions
- 4.Which of the following therapist would play the least directive role in the therapeutic process?
- A.
Lisa, a Beckian cognitive therapist
- B.
Dave, a rational-emotive therapist
- C.
Lana, a person-centered therapist
- D.
Luke, a psychoanalyst
- 5.A task force assembled by APA reviewed evidence on repressed memories of childhood abuse. What conclusions did they draw?
- A.
Most people who were abused as children remember all or part of what happened
- B.
It is possible to recall old memories that have been forgotten over time
- C.
It is possible to construct false memories of events that did not occur
- D.
All of the above
- 6.Cognitive therapies appear to be most effective for treating?
- A.
Phobic disorders
- B.
Depression
- C.
Low self-esteem
- D.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- 7.Behavioral therapies are most effective at treating
- A.
Mood disorders
- B.
Anxiety disorders
- C.
Low self-esteem
- D.
Repressed hostility
- 8.Grace has been feeling depressed. Her therapist is helping her to stop magnifying failures and overgeneralizing them. She is learning to replace irrational beliefs with rational beliefs. Her therapist is a:
- A.
Cognitive therapist
- B.
Behavior therapist
- C.
Psychoanalyst
- D.
Functional analyst
- 9.The person who wrote that many people are depressed, because they are pessimistic and tend to minimize their own accomplishments is a:
- A.
Cognitive therapist
- B.
Psychoanalyst
- C.
Behavior therapist
- D.
Humanistic-existential therapist
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