Key Terms
Ideas (usually outside one’s awareness) triggered by a particular event, that lead to emotional reactions.
What are automatic thoughts
This is conducted through an interview with paper and pencil or a computer, and includes thoughts, self-verbalization, decisions, accessible beliefs, values, images, and recognition-detection meaning attached to stimuli.
What is cognitive content
REBT (*what does it stand for?)
What is Rational-Emotive Behavior Theory
You see a constant, negative pattern based on one event.
What is overgeneralizing
Reality is viewed as dynamic. Meanings are socially embedded and constructed from the clients life experiences.
What is constructivist approach
The process of replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts and beliefs.
What is cognitive restructuring
When information is selected (input), transformed, and delivered (output). Included are functions such as selective attention, perception, encoding, storage, and retrieval.
What is Cognitive Process
Activating Event, Belief, Consequence.
What are the ABCs of REBT
You see things as absolutes. There are no gray areas.
What is all or nothing
Expecting the client to take an active role both inside and outside of treatment, this can typically be done through giving the client weekly homework assignments.
What is active approach
Inaccurate thinking causing one to act irrationally, emotionally, and subjectively.
What is distortion of reality
A term used to represent two aspects of cognition.
What are schemas
Absolutistic/dichotomous thinking, overgeneralization, selective abstraction, arbitrary interference, magnification/minimization, personalization.
What are common information-processing errors/thinking errors
When you expect the worst.
What is catastrophizing
Focusing on a specific problem that could be cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physical-physiological, social-environmental or a combination.
What is structured and directive approach
The process used to recognize irrational thoughts
What is Internal Dialogue / Inner Speech
Ways assessments of schemas are conducted.
What is Socratic exploration, questionnaires, and personal journals
Treatment of an emotional disturbance or behavioral problem achieved through accessing and modifying the cognitive content of one’s reaction to an event.
What is Cognitive Therapy
You make things personal when they aren’t. You believe others opinions are facts. You think what other people do/say is a reaction to you.
What is over-personalizing
Therapist represents a view that all humans are worthy, just the way they are. Therapist will work to encourage the client to adopt this philosophy as well.
What is unconditional regard for self and others
Cognitive therapy that views the client as capable of making objective interpretations of his or her behavior, with the collaboration of the therapist.
What is collaborative empiricism
When a chain of meanings is derived from a triggering event or a cognition considered possibly to stem from a maladaptive schema.
What is the Downward Arrow Technique
Problem orientation, problem definition & formation, generation of alternative solutions, decision making, implementation and verification of solutions.
What are five steps for problem solving in CBT
When you think your feelings are the reality.
What is emotional reasoning
Stimulates the client’s development of self-awareness and self-observation and opens up topic areas rather than leaving them minimally explored.
What is socratic questioning