Although REBT is discussed in the text chapter on cognitive therapies, it also includes a strong behavioral component. For example, an REBT therapist will at times establish a contract with a client who is failing to complete his/her homework assignments. This behavioral strategy is an example of:
a. contingency management.
b. counterconditioning.
c. stimulus control.
d. refutation and de-awfulizing.
Q. 2An REBT therapist is most likely to begin therapy by:
a. nurturing a positive therapeutic alliance with the client.
b. examining the client's childhood history for the roots of demanding thinking.
c. focusing on the client's irrational and demanding thinking.
d. support the client in proving his/her worth as a human being.
Q. 3A REBT view of the therapeutic relationship would include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. being empathic. c. demonstrating warmth to the patient.
b. being genuine and open . d. showing unconditional acceptance.
Q. 4Ellis distinguished between two forms of REBT, in part to clarify their relationship to cognitive-behavior therapy. As reported in the text, from Ellis' perspective, which of the following statements is true?
a. Specialized REBT is most like cognitive-behavior therapy.
b. General REBT is most like cognitive-behavior therapy.
c. REBT and CBT both always make use of psychoeducational techniques.
d. CBT promotes a more esoteric change in personal philosophy, while REBT is practically focused on reducing distress and associated symptoms.
Q. 5The REBT therapeutic process is most focused on:
a. understanding how activating events achieved the impact that they have.
b. appreciating that distressing consequences are the natural and direct result of experiences.
c. identifying and disputing irrational beliefs and replacing them with more rational beliefs.
d. emotional catharsis related to activating events and unpleasant consequences.
Q. 6Ellis eventually elaborated his REBT model to add the letters D and E to ABC, wherein D stands for __________ and E refers to____________.
a. Dysfunctional attitudes; Excessive emotional reaction
b. Disputing irrational beliefs; Effective new philosophy
c. Distressing consequences; Existential perspective
d. Distinguishing rational from irrational beliefs; Emotion regulation
Q. 7Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the irrational beliefs and dysfunctional attitudes that make up people's self-disturbing philosophies?
a. Include rigid demands.
b. Give rise to overgeneralized attributions.
c. Promote long-term hedonism.
d. Confuse preferences and imperatives.
Q. 8At its core, Ellis' rational-emotive theory of personality is said to be almost as easy as ABC, in which ABC represents:
a. Activating events of life, rational and/or irrational Beliefs, and emotional and behavioral Consequences.
b. Activating events of life, irrational Beliefs, and emotional and behavioral Consequences.
c. Activating events of life, rational Beliefs, and emotional and behavioral Consequences.
d. Antecedent events, Behavioral responses, and external and situational Consequences.
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