A depressed client is seeing a therapist who uses Beck's cognitive therapy. Which of the following is the therapist LEAST likely to do during treatment?
a. Identify automatic thoughts that precede a depressed mood and challenge their validity.
b. Schedule activities to counteract the periods of inactivity that may cause one to focus on depressive feelings.
c. Help the client search for alternative solutions to problems rather than resigning to defeat.
d. Teach the client relaxation skills and move through a hierarchy of symptoms of physical tension.
Question 2According to Aaron Beck, depressed individuals are characterized by negative beliefs about
a. others' views of them.
b. their work and their relationships.
c. their safety and security.
d. themselves, their world, and their future.
Question 3A therapist who is working with a client diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder decides to use stress inoculation training. Which of the following is likely to take place during this treatment?
a. First, the client is taught how certain thought patterns lead to anxiety, and is also taught how to cope with potential threats. Next, the client rehearses these coping skills and then applies them in various stressful conditions.
b. The client is flooded or imploded with anxiety by being forced to remain in the most anxiety-provoking situation imaginable, thus decreasing the anxiety experienced in similar but less extreme situations.
c. Unconscious conflicts that underlie the anxiety are explored in order to neutralize the anxiety at the most fundamental psychological level.
d. more than one of the above
Question 4The belief that life is awful, terrible, horrible, or catastrophic when things don't go the way we'd like them to go
a. is one of the common irrational beliefs identified by Ellis.
b. is the type of belief that, according to cognitive therapists, increases one's risk of psychopathology.
c. would be a target of change for an RET therapist.
d. all of the above
Question 5In the ABC model of RET,
a. A represents the actions, or target behaviors, that the client wants to change.
b. the fundamental goal is to alter C by increasing the extent to which B is logical.
c. both of the above
d. neither of the above
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