Theories
General Techniques
Panic Disorder and Social Anxiety
OCD and PTSD
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According to Beck's theory, this type of belief involves a central idea about oneself, others, the world, or the future

What is a core belief?

100

This is the first thing a CBT therapist does during each session

What is a mood check?

100

Treatment of panic disorder involves psychoeducation about this

What is the fight or flight response?

100

If a person keeps mentally repeating the same statement in order to reduce their anxiety, they are experiencing this symptom

What is a compulsion?

100

This is why/how exposure therapy works

What is disconfirmation of beliefs?

OR 

extinguished learned fear response

learn that feared outcomes won't happen or can handle them

100

According to Bandura's theory, this kind of learning involves observing and then imitating a model

What is observational learning or vicarious learning?

100

The cognitive model stresses that it is not just the situation itself that determine's one's feelings but rather one's _______

What is thoughts or interpretation?

100

People with panic disorder are afraid of these

What are panic/anxiety symptoms?

100

This is the primary form of treatment for OCD

What is Ex/RP (exposure with response prevention or exposure with ritual prevention)

100

When a person engages in a safety behavior, their anxiety (increases, decreases, or stays the same) in the short term, and (increases, decreases, or stays the same) in the long term

What is decreases and increases?

100

According to Mowrer's two-factor theory, this type of conditioning is theorized to account for the original CREATION of a fear

What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?

100

Instead of offering a direct challenge, a Beckian cognitive therapist uses this technique to help patient's evaluate their automatic thoughts

What is Socratic Questioning?

100

Interoceptive exposure involves confronting these

What are bodily sensations?

100

"Response prevention" refers to this

What is giving up rituals/compulsions?

100

According to Seligman and Johnson's theory, safety behaviors maintain fear because they prevent this

What is disconfirmation of beliefs?

100

According to Seligman and Johnson's Theory of Avoidance Behavior, THESE maintain fear

What are beliefs?

100

To help a patient identify automatic thoughts during a situation, a CBT therapist might ask this question

What is "What was going through your mind?"

100

When people with social anxiety are in social situations, they fear THIS by other people

What is judgement?

100

These are two of the categories of symptoms of PTSD

What are: intrusion, avoidance, cognitions/mood, arousal/reactivity?

100

This is the primary behavioral intervention for depression

What is activity scheduling?

100

According to Lang's Bioinformational Theory, emotions are represented in memory by these three types of elements

What are stimulus elements, response elements, and meaning elements?

100

This is a key question a CBT therapist might ask to help a patient evaluate a negative automatic thought

What is, "What is the evidence for/against this thought?"

100

This is an example of an exposure activity for someone with social anxiety

(Many possible responses)

100

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) focuses on changing these

What are Stuck Points or maladaptive beliefs?

100

In CBT, the term cognitive restructuring refers to this

What is identifying and changing thoughts and beliefs?