The Basics
Cognitive behavioral therapy usually involves efforts to change unhelpful ______ patterns and _____ patterns.
What is thinking, behavioral?
_______ is a cognitive therapy technique aimed at learning to recognize dysfunctional, negative thinking patterns, called CBT cognitive distortions, that cause negative feelings.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
_________ is a cognitive behavior therapy technique that helps people systematically approach what they fear and would otherwise avoid.
What is Exposure Therapy?
What does ANTS stand for?
CBT ______ include identifying negative thoughts, practicing new skills, goal setting, problem solving, and self-monitoring.
What is Techniques?
CBT states that psychological problems are based on what three phenomena?
What is faulty/unhelpful ways of thinking, learned patterns of unhelpful behavior, and problematic core beliefs?
__________ is a cognitive behavior therapy technique borrowed from Buddhist meditation and philosophy. The goal of mindfulness is to help people disengage from ruminating or obsessing about negative things and redirect their attention to what is actually happening in the present moment.
What is Mindfulness?
___________ is a cognitive behavioral therapy technique designed to help people increase behaviors they should be doing more. Identifying and scheduling helpful behaviors, such as meditating, going for a walk, or working on a project, it increases the likelihood of their getting them done.
ANTS are characterized as what?
What is rapid, involuntary thoughts that flash through the mind in response to specific situations or triggers?
CBT is ______ focused.
What is Thought? The goal is to understand and change negative thoughts that fuel irrational fears and anxieties.
CBT states that people suffering from psychological problems can learn ___________, thereby relieving their symptoms and becoming more effective in their lives.
What is better ways of coping with them?
___________ is a cognitive behavioral therapy strategy used to aid people in identifying their true priorities in life through guided discovery. It is about creating a roadmap for your own journey. By clarifying what is important or what gives you a sense of fulfillment or happiness, it becomes easier to make choices and establish objectives that are consistent with your beliefs.
What is Values Clarification?
This cognitive behavior therapy technique, also known as successive approximation, works for people who have difficulty completing a task, either due to a lack of familiarity with the task or because it feels overwhelming for some reason. This strategy works by helping people master an easier task similar to the more difficult one.
What is Shaping?
TRUE or FALSE: ANTS can be effectively challenged and slow in occurrence over time.
What is TRUE?
CBT is _____ oriented.
What is Goal? CBT helps clients gain tangible skills for achieving their goals.
CBT has been shown to effectively help to treat what diagnoses or problems?
What is depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, severe mental illness, and more?
___________ is a useful CBT strategy that helps clients successfully confront challenging issues and discover straightforward answers. It can be thought of as developing a toolbox full of problem-solving tools. This treatment helps people by breaking down large, complex problems into smaller, more manageable bits, making it simpler to find answers and a clear path forward.
What is Problem-solving Therapy?
__________ is a cognitive behavioral therapy technique implemented to remedy skills deficits. For instance, if you have difficulty relaxing, the skill known as progressive muscle relaxation is taught and practiced throughout therapy to improve your ability to relax on cue.
What is Skill Training?
ANTS are part of the cognitive behavioral _____.
What is triangle? These thoughts are part of the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions, often creating a cycle of distress.
What is a major component of CBT?
What is Functional Analysis, Skills Training, and Our Thoughts and Beliefs Affect Our Feelings and Behavior? Functional Analysis: Counselor and client work at identifying high-risk situations that trigger or stimulate negative emotions and behaviors (such as substance abuse) and then work to find alternative strategies to avoid or cope with these high risk situations and triggers. Skills training: Relaxation techniques, anger management skills, cognitive reframing, positive self-talk, etc. – There are many useful and helpful coping skills for a variety of mental health disorders and conditions. CBT is focused on practical solutions these issues. Our thoughts and beliefs affect our feelings and behaviors: CBT focuses on therapist helping clients identify and challenge negative and irrational thinking patterns and belief systems which then helps one improve ability to cope with emotional issues and establish new more positive coping behaviors.
TRUE or FALSE: in CBT, the client merely follows the clinician's directions on what is wrong with their life and how to fix it.
What is FALSE? The clinician and client work together collaboratively as a team to develop an understanding of the problem and to develop a treatment strategy.
At a very basic level, ________ is about learning to see thoughts as merely thoughts and to choose whether or not to engage with them. By distancing from unhelpful thoughts, it becomes easier to be aware of thoughts without allowing them to dictate your behavior.
What is Cognitive Defusion?
_______________ increases desirable behavior by using systems of reinforcement and punishment. For instance, if you consistently go to the gym after work, you could reward yourself with a dinner at a nice restaurant. This approach is predicated on the notion that your choices are shaped by the results they have.
What is Contingency Management?
What is the first and most important step in conquering ANTS?
What is identifying them? Merely becoming aware of the thought process helps us distance ourselves from our reflexive cognitive responses and reevaluate them.
TRUE or FALSE: Relapse prevention is based on CBT principles?
What is True?