Techniques
People to Know
CBT vs. Other Theoretical Approaches
Behavior Therapies
Concepts
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What is a Thought Record (TR)?
A self-monitoring technique where a client charts triggering situations, emotional reactions, and automatic thoughts on a worksheet.
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Who developed CBT?
Aaron T. Beck
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What is psychoanalysis and CBT?
One focuses on a person's childhood the other focuses on a person's thoughts and how they impact emotions and behavior.
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What is REBT?
Teaches people to take responsibility for their own logical thinking and the consequences and behaviors that follow it.
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What does ANTS stand for?
Automatic Negative Thoughts
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What is systematic desensitization?
A CBT technique where the client proceeds through a hierarchy of imagined scenes starting with the least anxiety provoking and moving to the most anxiety provoking while practicing relaxation techniques.
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Who is Marsha Linnehan?
The woman who developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
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What is Client Centered?
Whereas CBT is structured and focused this theoretical approach is very non-directive and focuses on unconditional regard.
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What is unconditional self-acceptance (USA)?
Individuals have worth. They should accept that they make mistakes and that some of their assets and qualities are stronger than others. Individuals’ acts or performances should be criticized, not their personal worth.
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What is the Depressive Triad?
Negative view of oneself, the world, and the future.
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What is bibliotherapy?
The use of reading books in conjunction with therapy.
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Who is Albert Ellis?
The person who developed Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT).
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What is Behavioral Therapy?
Unlike CBT this theoretical approach isn't interested in cognition but focuses on what a person does.
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What is Responsible Hedonism?
Refers to maintaining pleasure over the long-term by avoiding short-term pleasures that may lead to pain, i.e. substance abuse, other excessive behaviors that lead to ongoing problems…
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What is a schema?
Unconditional core beliefs which serve as a basis for screening, categorizing, and interpreting experiences (Freeman, 2004).
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What is thought stopping?
The client interrupts the stream of negative and/or dysfunctional thoughts with a sudden stimulus, imagined or real, then switches to other thoughts before the negative and/or dysfunctional thoughts return.
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Who is Arthur Freeman?
The primary author of the text "Clinical Applications of Cognitive Therapy.
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What is Adlerian Psychology?
This theoretical approach is concerned with the overcoming of the superiority/inferiority dynamic.
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What is MUSTurbation?
I must perform well and win the approval of important people, or else I am an inadequate person! Others must treat me fairly and considerately! My life must be easy and pleasant. I need and must have the things I want, or life is unbearable!
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What are considered the three main components of CBT?
Thoughts, Feelings (Emotions), and Behaviors
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What is in vivo exposure?
Intervention where the client and therapist work together in the actual situations in which the client's problems arise.
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Who is Joseph Wolpe?
The person who developed the treatment method systematic desensitization.
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What is Existential Humanistic psychology?
This theoretical approach focuses on human existence and pays special attention to such phenomena as creativity, free will, and human potential.
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What are the steps in the ABC model?
A. Something happens (Activating Event) B. You have a belief about the situation (Belief) C. You have an emotional reaction to the belief (Consequences)
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What are cognitive distortions?
Examples include: minimization, overgeneralization, and dichotomous thinking.