Counseling Theories Chapts 10-11

The founder of REBT and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is

Albert Ellis

REBT stresses

1. Thinking
2. Judging
3. Deciding
4. Analyzing
5. Doing

REBT assumes that

1. Cognitions
2. Emotions
3. Behaviors
interact and have cause -and-effect relationship

REBT is highly ______, very ____ and concerned as much with thinking as with ____.

didactic
directive
feeling

REBT teaches that our emotions stem mainly from our _____, ______, ______, and ______ to life situations

beliefs
evaluations
interpretations
reactions

View of Human Nature

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

e. exception questions

REBT is based on the philosophical assumption that human beings are

c. potentially able to rationally but have a tendency toward irrational thinking

REBT stresses that human beings

think, emote, and behave simultaneously

REBT views neurosis as the result of

d. irrational thinking and behaving

In cognitive behavioral therapy

a. there is some research that shows that this approach is effective for treating a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems

REBT contends that people

d. do not need to be accepted and loved

According to REBT, we develop emotional disturbances because of

b. our beliefs about certain events

Meichenbaum's _______ focuses on helping clients become more aware of their self-help talk and the stories they tell about themselves.

a. self-instructional training

In cognitive therapy the assumption is that psychological problems stem from processes such as
a. faulty thinking
b. making incorrect inferences on the basis of inadequate or incorrect information
c. failing to distinguish between fantansy and reality
d.

e. all the above

Cognitive therapy is based on the assumption that

c. cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act

In cognitive therapy techniques are designed to

c.identify and test clients' misconceptions and faulty assumptions

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

b. polarized thinking

Beck's cognitive therapy differs from Elli's therapy in that Beck emphasizes

a. Socratic dialogue
b. helping clients discover their misconceptions by themselves
c. working with the client in collaborative ways
d. more structure in the therapeutic process
e. all of the above

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

d. depression

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

b. the role of inner speech

Who is the founder of reality therapy?

e. William Glasser

According to this approach, insight

b. is not necessary for producing behavior change

The view of human nature underlying reality therapy is
a. that we have a need for identity
b. that we have the need to feel loved and accepted by others
c. that we need to feel worthwhile to ourselves and others
d. all of the above
e. none of the above

d. all of the above

Which is not a key concept of reality therapy?

b. unconscious motivation

Which of the following is not true of reality therapy?

e. working through the transference relationship is essential for therapy

Regarding the goals of reality therapy,

b. it is the client's responsibility to decide goals

In reality therapy, our quality world is likened to

a. picture album

Which statement is not true of reality therapy?

b. it focuses on attitude change as a prerequisite for behavior change

Reality therapy was originally designed for working with

b. youthful offenders in detention facilities

Which of the following would not be used by a reality therapist?
a. analysis of the transference of the relationship
b. hypnosis
c. the analysis of dreams
d. the search for causes of current problems
e. all of the above

e. all of the above

Which of the following statements is true as it applies to choice therapy?

d. we are motivated completely be internal forces, and our behavior is our best attempt to get what we want

According to Glasser, all of the following are basic psychological needs except for

a. competition

An axiom of choice therapy is that

b. although the past may have contributed to a current problem, the past is never the problem

Sometimes it seems as though people actually choose to be miserable (depressed). Glasser explains the dynamics of depressing as being based on

a. keeping anger under control
b. getting others to help us
c. excusing our willingness to do something more effective
d. all of the above
e. none of the above

All of the following are procedures in reality therapy that are said to lead to change except for

c. the therapist's evaluating of the client's behavior