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REBT makes use of both cognitive and behavioral techniques, but it does not use emotive techniques.

True

False

REBT practitioners strive to unconditionally accept all clients and to teach them to unconditionally accept others and themselves.

True

False

A major contribution made by Ellis, the Becks, Padesky and Mooney, and Meichenbaum is the demystification of the therapy process.

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False

Ellis shares Rogers’s view of the client–therapist relationship as a condition for change to occur within clients.

True

False

According to Albert Ellis, to feel worthwhile, human beings need love and acceptance from significant others.

True

False

Ellis maintains that events themselves do not cause emotional disturbances; rather, it is our evaluation of and beliefs about these events that cause our problems.

True

False

A difference between Beck’s cognitive therapy and Ellis’s REBT is that Beck places more emphasis on helping clients discover their misconceptions for themselves than does Ellis.

True

False

According to Beck, people become disturbed when they label, interpret, and evaluate themselves by a set of rules that are unrealistic.

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False

Which of the following is not a part of stress inoculation training?

Exception questions

Self-reinforcement

Socratic discovery-oriented inquiry

Relaxation training

REBT is based on the premise that human beings

Learn irrational beliefs from significant others during childhood and then re-create these irrational beliefs throughout our lifetime

Are determined by strong unconscious sexual and aggressive forces

Are trying to develop a lifestyle to overcome feelings of basic inferiority

Are innately striving for self-actualization

REBT is based on the assumption that

Cognitions, emotions, and behaviors interact significantly

Humans emote without thinking

Humans behave without emoting or thinking

Humans think without emoting

REBT views the core of emotional disturbances to be

Failure to fulfill our existential needs

Excessive feelings

Inadequate mothering during infancy

Blame

One of the most common CBT group approaches is

The group leader assuming a blank screen demeanor so as to enhance transference feelings of the members

The group leader believing that using techniques interferes with the group process

The assumption that a therapeutic atmosphere is both necessary and sufficient for change to occur

Based on REBT principles and techniques

REBT contends that people have three basic musts (or irrational beliefs) they internalize that inevitably lead to self-defeat. Which of the following is not one of them?

Other people must treat e fairly, kindly, and well.”

“The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just, providing me with all that I want in life.”

�I must do well and be loved and approved by others.”

�I do not need to be accepted and loved.”

The main idea of SB-CBT is

That people contribute to their own psychological problems

That active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that otherwise would be missed

That we learn irrational beliefs from significant others during childhood and then re-create these irrational beliefs throughout our lifetime

Based on the theoretical rationale that the way people feel and behave is influenced by how they perceive and place meaning on their experience

Meichenbaum’s ______________________focuses more on helping clients become aware of their self-talk and the stories they tell about themselves.

Self-talk analysis

Self-instructional training

Narrative therapy

Self-awareness conditioning

In cognitive therapy the assumption is that a psychological disorder begins when normal emotion and behaviors become disproportionate to life events in degree frequency. Which of the following is not one of these processes?

Selective abstraction

Non-polarized thinking

Faulty information processing

Arbitrary inferences

Cognitive behavior therapy tends to be culturally sensitive because

It uses the individual’s belief system, or worldview, as part of the method of self-exploration

Cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act

The best way to change thinking is to reexperience past emotional traumas in the here and now

Our feelings determine our actions

In cognitive therapy techniques are designed to

Assist clients in substituting rational beliefs for irrational beliefs

Identify and examinet a client’s’ beliefs

Enable clients to deal with their existential loneliness

Help clients experience their feelings more intensely

The type of cognitive error that involves thinking and interpreting in all-or-nothing terms or categorizing experiences in either-or extremes is known as

Magnification and exaggeration

Arbitrary inference

Polarized thinking

Overgeneralization

Beck’s cognitive therapy places more emphasizes on

A Socratic dialogue

Helping clients identify misconceptions for themselves

Less structure in the therapeutic process

Working with the client in collaborative ways

Beck’s cognitive therapy has been most widely applied to the treatment of

Depression

Stress symptoms

Psychosomatic reactions

Phobias

In self-instructional training, which of the following is given primary importance?

Help clients learn the A-B-C model of emotional disturbances

Help clients identify cognitive errors

Helping clients become aware of their self-talk

Helping clients detect and debate irrational thoughts

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