Founders
Key Concepts
Application
Cognitive Distortions
We can't forget about?!?
100

Aaron T. Beck and Judith Beck are the founders of what form of therapy?


What is Cognitive Therapy?

100
An unreasonable conviction that leads to emotional and behavioral problems

What are irrational beliefs?

100

The most common cognitive method of REBT consists of the therapist

What is Disputing Irrational Beliefs?

100

A tendency for individuals to relate external events to themselves, even when there is no basis for making this connection

What is Personalization?

100

Core beliefs that are centrally related to dysfunctional behaviors. The process of cognitive therapy involves restructuring distorted core beliefs

What is a Schema?

200

Albert Ellis is the founder of what form of behavior therapy?

What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?

200

Central to REBT theory and practice

What is the A-B-C Framework?

200

Clients are encouraged to record and think about how their beliefs contribute to their personal problems and are asked to work hard at uprooting these self-defeating cognitions 

What is Cognitive Homework?

200

Involves portraying one’s identity on the basis of imperfections and mistakes made in the past and allowing them to define one’s true identity

What is Labeling and Mislabeling?

200

Maladaptive thoughts that appear to arise reflexively, without conscious deliberation

What are automatic thoughts?

300

Christine Padesky is the founder of what form of CBT?

What is Strengths-Based CBT (SB-CBT)?

300

Goal of REBT to assist clients in the process of achieving

What is USA (unconditional self-acceptance), UOA (Unconditional other-acceptance), and ULA (Unconditional life-acceptance)?

300

These approaches have empirical support for a range of clinical problems, including the treatment of depression and many anxiety disorders

What is Bibliotherapy?

300

Conclusions drawn without supporting evidence. This includes “catastrophizing,” or thinking of the absolute worst scenario and outcomes for most situations

What are Arbitrary Interferences?

300

The organizing aspect of thinking, which monitors and directs the choice of thoughts; implies an “executive processor,” one that determines when to continue, interrupt, or change thinking patterns

What is Cognitive Structure?

400

Donald Meichenbaum was the founder of?

What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy?

400

Negative views of the self (self-criticism), the world (pessimism), and the future (hopelessness)

What is the Negative Cognitive Triad?

400

The therapist may interrupt to show clients what they are telling themselves to create their disturbances and what they can do to change unhealthy feelings to healthy ones. Clients can rehearse certain roles to bring out what they feel in a situation

What is Role-Playing?

400

Consist of perceiving a case or situation in a greater or lesser light than it truly deserves

What is Magnification and Minimization?

400

A therapeutic approach that focuses on changing the client’s self-verbalizations

What is Cognitive Behavior Modification (CBM)?

500

Cognitive Therapy, REBT, SB-CBT, and CBT all fall under this as approaches

What are Cognitive Therapies?

500

Describes principles pertaining to all CT’s applications from depression and anxiety treatments to therapies for a wide variety of other problems.

What is the Generic Cognitive Model?

500

This is a form of intense mental practice designed to establish new emotional patterns in place of disruptive ones by thinking in healthy ways

What is Rational Emotive Imagery?

500

Involves categorizing experiences in either-or extremes

What is Dichotomous Thinking?

500

Combination of information giving, Socratic discussion, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, relaxation training, behavioral rehearsals, self-monitoring, self-instruction, self-reinforcement, and modifying environmental situations.

What is Stress-Inoculation Training?