Deck 15: The House of Atreus: Aeschyluss Oresteia

Question 1

Ridley et al. (2008) define cultural confrontation as.

A) a therapist challenging cultural values that may be contributing to a client's psychological problems.
B) a therapist self-disclosing his or her own cultural background to the client.
C) a client discussing his or her own cultural beliefs with those of his or her family members.
D) a client deliberately selecting a therapist of a different cultural background.

Answer 1

a therapist challenging cultural values that may be contributing to a client's psychological problems.

Question 2

Which of the following is true regarding cognitive psychotherapy?

A) Cognitive psychotherapy is typically more structured and less spontaneous than humanistic psychotherapy.
B) Compared to behavioral psychotherapy, cognitive psychotherapy deemphasizes internal, mental processes.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Answer 2

Cognitive psychotherapy is typically more structured and less spontaneous than humanistic psychotherapy.

Question 3

_________ is considered a leader in the cognitive therapy movement.

A) Aaron Beck
B) Albert Ellis
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Answer 3

all of the above

Question 4

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is the therapy approach created by

A) Albert Ellis.
B) Aaron Beck.
C) Donald Meichenbaum.
D) B. F. Skinner.

Question 5

According to Ellis' ABCDE model, "D" represents

A) a discussion of the feelings resulting from the client's irrational thoughts.
B) the drive with which the irrational thought is associated.
C) the domain of the client's life negatively influenced by the irrational thought.
D) a dispute of the client's irrational thoughts.

Question 6

Dialectical behavior therapy, developed by Marsha Linehan, has been found effective in the treatment of

A) spinal cord injuries.
B) borderline personality disorder.
C) individuals with work-related problems that do not qualify as mental disorders.
D) obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Question 7

There are two widely recognized pioneers of cognitive psychotherapy. Which of the following is NOT one of those pioneers?

A) William Miller
B) Aaron Beck
C) Albert Ellis
D) none of the above

Question 8

The idea that the way we think about events determines the way we respond to them is a cornerstone of ________ therapy.

A) Cognitive
B) Behavioral
C) Humanistic
D) Psychodynamic

Question 9

The cognitive thought distortion defined as expecting the worst in the future when it is actually unlikely to occur is

A) all-or-nothing thinking.
B) catastrophizing.
C) personalization.
D) overgeneralization.

Question 10

Which of the following best describes the three-step process typically used by cognitive psychotherapists to revise a client's cognitions?

A) identify illogical thoughts; teach relaxation skills; countercondition illogical thoughts
B) identify illogical thoughts; challenge illogical thoughts; replace illogical thoughts with more logical thoughts
C) make unconscious illogical thoughts conscious; interpret illogical thoughts; work through illogical thoughts
D) identify illogical thoughts; reflect emotional content of illogical thoughts; empathize with difficulties caused by illogical thoughts

Question 11

Natalie, a psychotherapy client, is depressed about a recent breakup with her romantic partner. She believes that the breakup is entirely her fault, and that if she had done things differently, she wouldn't be alone now. This belief best exemplifies the cognitive thought distortion known as

A) all-or-nothing thinking.
B) catastrophizing.
C) personalization.
D) mental filtering.

Question 12

According to the cognitive approach to psychotherapy, psychological problems arise from

A) fixations at particular developmental stages in childhood.
B) classical or operant conditioning.
C) illogical thoughts or interpretations of events in our lives.
D) incongruence between the real self and the ideal self.

Question 13

The use of cognitive psychotherapy for medical problems

A) has not yet occurred.
B) was a primary focus of the early work of Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis, but has declined in recent decades.
C) has been empirically demonstrated to be more beneficial than prescription medications for ulcers, diabetes, and the flu.
D) has increased significantly in recent decades.

Question 14

The primary goal of cognitive psychotherapy is

A) observable behavior change via contingency management.
B) to make the unconscious conscious.
C) logical thinking.
D) self-actualization.

Question 15

Cognitive psychotherapy

A) has not yet been found efficacious in the treatment of any specific psychological disorders.
B) emphasizes objective measures of psychotherapy outcome to a greater extent than psychodynamic psychotherapy.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 16

Aaron Beck has argued that the cognitive triad, which includes _______, is a powerful determinant of mental health and depression levels.

A) thoughts about the self
B) thoughts about the external world
C) thoughts about the future
D) all of the above

Question 17

Since the 1980s, the popularity of cognitive psychotherapy among clinical psychologists has

A) increased.
B) remained constant.
C) decreased slightly.
D) decreased greatly.

Question 18

Which of the following forms of therapy most strongly emphasizes the use of teaching as a therapy tool?

A) behavioral
B) psychodynamic
C) humanistic
D) cognitive

Question 19

According to Ellis' ABCDE model, "C" represents

A) cognition.
B) emotional consequence.
C) choice behavior.
D) conditioned response.

Question 20

Compared to psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive psychotherapy tends to

A) require a greater number of sessions.
B) emphasize the past rather than the present.
C) all of the above
D) none of the above

Question 21

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is most closely associated with

A) Marsha Linehan
B) Judith Beck
C) Steven Hayes
D) Aaron Beck

Question 22

________ can be defined as full engagement with one's own internal mental processes in a non-confrontational way, which often involves a reduction in _____________.

A) Mindfulness; acceptance.
B) Metacognitive therapy; cognitive restructuring.
C) Insight; transference.
D) Mindfulness; experiential avoidance.

Question 23

What are each of the five components of Ellis's ABCDE model?

Question 24

Define the common thought distortion known as mind reading, and offer a fictional example that a client might bring to a clinical psychologist.

Question 25

Define the common thought distortion known as catastrophizing, and offer a fictional example that a client might bring to a clinical psychologist.

Question 26

The term "third wave therapies" is most often applied to

A) therapies based on mindfulness and acceptance.
B) brief psychodynamic therapies.
C) therapies based on classical conditioning.
D) play therapies.

Question 27

Define the common thought distortion known as overgeneralization, and offer a fictional example that a client might bring to a clinical psychologist.

Question 28

Briefly describe the two historical developments that contributed to the development of cognitive psychotherapy in the 1950s and 1960s