treatments

• What is cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) primarily used for?

  Depression and other mental health issues
• What approach does cognitive behaviour therapy exemplify?

  The cognitive approach to treatment
• What is the first step in cognitive element CBT?

  Assessment of the client's problems
• What is a central task in cognitive element CBT?

  Identifying negative or irrational thoughts
• What does the behavioral element of CBT focus on?

  Changing negative thoughts and behaviors
• Who developed cognitive therapy?

  Beck
• What is the negative triad in cognitive therapy?

  Automatic thoughts about self, world, future
• What is a key component of cognitive therapy?

  Challenging automatic negative thoughts
• How might clients test their negative beliefs in cognitive therapy?

  By recording enjoyable events
• What is the 'client as scientist' concept in cognitive therapy?

  Clients investigate their negative beliefs
• How does a therapist use evidence in future sessions?

  To prove clients' statements are incorrect
• What does REBT stand for?

  Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
• What does the D in the ABCDE model of REBT stand for?

  Dispute
• What is the main technique of REBT?

  Identifying and disputing irrational thoughts
• How might a therapist challenge a client's belief of being unlucky?

  By identifying it as utopianism
• What is the hallmark of REBT?


  A vigorous argument to challenge beliefs
• What are the two types of arguments used in REBT?

  Empirical and logical arguments
• What is the goal of behavioral activation?

  To decrease avoidance and increase engagement
• What activities might be encouraged in behavioral activation?

  Exercising and going out to dinner
• How does depression affect behavior according to behavioral activation?

  It leads to avoidance and isolation
• What are the key components of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)?

  • Assessment of client's problems
  • Identification of negative thoughts
  • Setting therapy goals
  • Changing negative thoughts and behaviors
• What are the main techniques used in Beck's cognitive therapy?

  • Identifying automatic thoughts
  • Challenging negative beliefs
  • Homework assignments for reality testing
• What are the main techniques used in Ellis's rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)?

  • Identifying irrational thoughts
  • Disputing negative beliefs
  • Using empirical and logical arguments
• What is the process of behavioral activation?

  • Gradually decreasing avoidance
  • Increasing engagement in activities
  • Reinforcing positive behaviors