Theorists
Cognitive Distortions
Techniques:
Assessments
Techniques:
Interventions
100
He was the first to systemize a cognitive approach and created the A-B-C model.
Who is Albert Ellis?
100
A young man asks a woman out on an initial date and is turned down; he concludes, "All women are alike, I'll always be rejected"
What is Overgeneralization?
100
Relationship Belief Inventory, Inventory of Specific Relationship Standards and Marital Attitude Survey are some examples of these.
What is Self-Report Questionnaires?
100
This intervention comes from Albert Ellis and his A-B-C approach.
What is Challenging Irrational Beliefs?
200
Transformed behavioral therapy with the introduction of operant conditioning; emphasized the importance of reinforcement in shaping new behaviors, keeping acceptable ones and getting rid of those that are useless.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
200
Conclusions are made in the absence of supporting substantiating evidence. Example: A man whose wife arrives home a half-hour late from work concludes, "She must be having an affair"
What is Arbitrary Inference?
200
Used to see family patterns that are viewed as more positive and enhancing of family harmony.
What is Functional Analysis?
200
Creates effective expression of thoughts and feelings and assists with listening to and acknowledging the messages of others...
What is Communication Training?
300
Created the concept of cognitive schemas and discovering how the schemas affect the overall thoughts and beliefs in an individual (or family).
Who is Aaron Beck?
300
After making continual mistakes in meal preparation, a spouse states, "I am worthless" rather than recognizing her errors as human.
What is Labeling and Mislabeling?
300
Designed to develop a cognitive map that leads from automatic thoughts to cognitive distortions to underlying core beliefs in the individual's private schema
What is Downward Arrow Technique?
300
Involves 4 steps such as getting a clear definition of the problem that all family members can accept, brainstorming...
What is Problem-Solving Training?
400
Introduced CBFT into mainstream family therapy; uses systems approach and family-of-origin schemas to discover automatic thoughts and irrational beliefs and creates harmonious families in therapy
Who is Frank Dattilio?
400
Taking things out of context, paying attention to distortion-supporting details, but ignoring other important information. Example: A mother is always complaining about her child's lower grades or the one sock on the floor in her room; but never compliments the A's or overall neatness of her room.
What is Selective Abstractions?
400
Used to assess the patterns, frequency, and settings associated with negative interactions
What is Assessment of Interactions: Interviews?
400
Practicing new behaviors and new positions or roles in the family
What is Acting "as if"?
500
Developed a social learning theory; conceptualized the interaction between stimulus, personal positioning and action which became the foundation for cognitive-behavioral therapy today.
Who is Albert Bandura (with Richard Walters)?
500
Otherwise known as "polarized thinking" A husband is asks his wife's opinion on a paperhanging job underway in the recreation room, the wife questions the seams, and the husband thinks to himself, "I can't do anything right"
What is Dichotomous Thinking?
500
Starts when a counselor meets the couple or family for the first time; goal is to detail actual behaviors and interactions that take place, as well as the consequences and reinforcements.
What is Behavioral Observation?
500
A mutual exchange of behaviors in which each party gets something they want from the other if both agree to deliver it.
What is a Contingency Contract?
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