Deck 27: Approaches to Behavior Therapy: Cognitive Restructuring; Self-Directed Coping Methods; and Mindfulness and Acceptance Procedures

Question 1

What is acceptance as cognitive behavior therapists use the term?

Answer 1

"Acceptance" refers to a set of behaviors in reaction to mindfulness activities, including refraining from judging one's sensations, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, useful or useless, etc.

Question 2

According to Beck, what causes problems for individuals with neuroses? Describe three examples.

Answer 2

According to Beck, neurotic individuals engage excessively in aberrant, fallacious, dysfunctional thinking, and this is what causes their problems.Examples include dichotomous thinking, which is thinking in obsolete terms, such as assuming that one is a failure if one gets any grade less than an "A"; arbitrary inference, which is drawing a conclusion on the basis of inadequate evidence, such as misinterpreting a frown on the face of a passer-by to mean that the passer-by disapproves of him or her; overgeneralization, which is reaching a general conclusion on the basis of too few instances, such as assuming that a single failure means that one can not succeed at anything; and magnification, which is exaggerating the meaning or significance of a particular event, such as believing that it is catastrophic not to obtain something that one wants very badly.Any three appropriate examples are acceptable.

Question 3

Does self-instructional training rely largely on contingency-shaped behavior or rule-governed behavior? Justify your choice.

Answer 3

Self-instructional training relies largely on rule-governed behavior.When a child self-instructs himself/herself for performing a task, the child is following self-stated rules.

Question 4

What do the letters ABCT stand for?

Question 5

Describe the types of homework assignments Beck uses in his cognitive therapy.

Question 6

In a sentence, what is cognitive restructuring?

Question 7

Briefly describe the three phases of Meichenbaum's stress inoculation training.

Question 8

Describe three similarities and three differences between the approaches of Beck and Ellis.

Question 9

In a sentence each, outline the six steps of problem-solving therapy.

Question 10

What are the three waves or generations of behavior therapy?

Question 11

Why did Ellis change the name of his therapy from RET to REBT?

Question 12

Briefly describe the three phases of ACT.

Question 13

Briefly list the five steps of self-instructional training that Meichenbaum and others used with children.

Question 14

What is mindfulness as Buddhists and behavior therapists use the term?

Question 15

What are the three main phases of rational-emotive behavior therapy and who developed it?

Question 16

Describe the three major components of Beck's cognitive therapy.

Question 17

What are the two major assumptions of cognitive therapy?

Question 18

What are three differences between cognitive therapy and ACT?

Question 19

Stated simply, what do some cognitive therapists believe to be the cause of emotional and behavioral problems, and what is the primary focus of their approach to therapy?

Question 20

What are cognitive processes?

Question 21

Briefly describe the three steps that a therapist might follow in teaching a client to use thought-stopping to terminate distressing thoughts.

Question 22

From a behavioral point of view, summarize why cognitive restructuring techniques might be effective.

Question 23

Give an example that illustrates how a person's self-statements (operant thinking)can function as CSs to elicit the respondent components of an emotion.(You might want to review Chapter 15.)

Question 24

Briefly describe three behavioral explanations that might explain why mindfulness and acceptance-based procedures are therapeutic.

Question 25

Briefly explain one of the assumptions of the philosophy of dialectics.

Question 26

23.Briefly describe several of the therapeutic phases of DBT.

Question 27

With an example, illustrate the combinatorial entailment aspect of relational framing.

Question 28

Give an example that illustrates how cognitive therapists capitalize on rule-governed behavior to help their clients.

Question 29

With an example, illustrate the bidirectionality aspect of relational framing.

Question 30

What is one explanation of why both self-instruction and problem-solving training might be effective therapeutic techniques?

Question 31

Give an example that illustrates how a person's self-statements might exert rule-governed control over that person's behavior.(You might want to review Chapter 17.)

Question 32

What are two of the reasons that Linehan added the term dialectical to her approach to behavior therapy?

Question 33

With an example, illustrate how relational framing involves transformation of stimulus functions among related stimuli.

Question 34

Discuss whether reputable behavior modifiers deny the existence and importance of thoughts and feelings.