CBT Basics
This CBT principle explains how thoughts influence emotions and behaviors.
What is the cognitive model?
This psychodynamic concept refers to mental processes that occur outside of conscious awareness but influence behavior and emotions.
What is the unconscious?
This counseling approach frequently assigns structured homework between sessions to reinforce skills learned in therapy.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
“What we think determines how we feel.”
Who is Aaron Beck?
A client presents with panic attacks and wants immediate tools to manage symptoms.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This CBT concept refers to quick, reflexive thoughts that occur in response to a situation and influence emotions and behavior.
What are automatic thoughts?
Reenactment of past relational patterns within the therapeutic relationship.
What is transference?
This CBT intervention requires clients to track situations, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to identify patterns.
What is thought monitoring (self-monitoring)?
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
Who is Albert Ellis?
A client repeatedly enters the same type of unhealthy relationship and is unsure why.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
This CBT process involves identifying distorted thinking and evaluating evidence for and against those thoughts.
What is cognitive restructuring?
These psychological strategies operate unconsciously to reduce anxiety and protect the individual from emotional distress.
What are defense mechanisms?
This psychodynamic intervention uses exploration of the therapeutic relationship to promote insight and change.
What is the interpretation of transference?
“People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them.”
Who is Albert Ellis?
A client avoids feared situations, reinforcing anxiety through short-term relief.
What is operant conditioning (negative reinforcement)?
This CBT principle explains how avoiding feared situations temporarily reduces anxiety but strengthens it long term.
What is negative reinforcement?
This psychodynamic concept explains how early caregiver relationships form internal templates for future relationships.
What is object relations?
This CBT intervention increases engagement in meaningful activities to reduce depression.
What is behavioral activation?
“Acceptance is not resignation; it is acknowledging what is.”
Who is Steven Hayes?
A client displays strong emotional reactions toward the therapist that mirror past relational experiences.
What is transference?
This CBT assumption states that changing behavior and thought patterns can lead to emotional change, even if insight comes later.
What is the cognitive-behavioral model of change?
This process describes the unconscious repetition of unresolved past conflicts in present relationships.
What is repetition compulsion?
This CBT intervention is considered the gold standard treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)?
“Symptoms are meaningful expressions of unconscious conflict.”
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A client reacts intensely to the therapist in ways that mirror early caregiver relationships.
What is psychodynamic therapy?