According to REBT, anxiety:
a. is the gap between the now and then, the here and there.
b. is not the cause of problems, but rather a troubling result of living a divided life.
c. is removed by effectively disputing inappropriate use of labels or childish demands.
d. serves the purpose of keeping the client from having to take action and move ahead into the future.
Q. 2Which of the following would be LEAST consistent with a REBT therapist's role in consciousness raising?
a. The therapist need not be obsessive about the timing of their interpretations.
b. The therapist refutes contradictions between client's beliefs and actions.
c. The therapist uses didactic and feedback techniques.
d. The therapist uses interpretations to connect current complaints to past events.
Q. 3From a behavioral perspective, Beck's cognitive therapy would most likely be criticized for:
a. being too concerned about developing a therapeutic alliance.
b. overemphasizing the impact of the current environment on a person's thinking.
c. emphasizing a person's beliefs about antecedent events as the cause of distress.
d. failing to produce well-controlled empirical studies to test the effectiveness of CT.
Q. 4Which of the following has NOT been substantiated by meta-analytic studies of cognitive therapy?
a. CT is superior to no treatment and placebo treatments for depression.
b. CT is much less effective than behavioral exposure therapies for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
c. CT is at least as effective as other psychotherapies for depression.
d. CT is comparable to medication treatments of anxiety disorders in the short run, but outperforms medication treatments over the long run.
Q. 5The therapeutic technique of disattribution involves:
a. helping clients to think of themselves in preferred, as-if ways.
b. experimenting with dichotomous thinking.
c. accepting automatic thoughts as part of who we are instead of fighting with them.
d. gently challenging clients not to automatically connect negative events with who they are as people.
Q. 6Distancing is a therapeutic method intended to:
a. amplify the emotional connections to certain beliefs.
b. a process of self-monitoring and thought charting.
c. help clients re-evaluate their problematic thoughts more objectively.
d. disabuse clients of their automatic and problematic beliefs.
Q. 7Beck's cognitive restructuring intended to modify the thinking process emerges out of each of the following kinds of questions EXCEPT:
a. How did you learn to think like that?
b. What's the evidence?
c. What's another way of looking at it?
d. So what if it happens?
Q. 8In Beck's cognitive therapy having the patient learn to deal with upsetting thoughts objectively and reevaluating them rather than automatically accepting them is called:
a. refutation. c. disattribution technique.
b. automatic thoughts. d. distancing.
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