Belief Change Interventions Flashcards
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When a client shows 'confirmation bias' related to a negative belief, the therapist should:
Answer: Design experiments and logs that intentionally expose disconfirming evidence
Directing attention to disconfirming evidence counteracts confirmation bias and loosens the belief's hold.
A client says, 'I know rationally this belief is wrong, but I still feel it's true.' This gap is best addressed by:
Answer: Integrating experiential and somatic techniques alongside cognitive work
The head-heart gap requires experiential, body-based, or emotional processing techniques that go beyond purely verbal restructuring.
Role-reversal in belief change sessions is most useful for:
Answer: Having the client argue against their own limiting belief, building internal counter-evidence
When clients defend the opposite of their limiting belief in a role-reversal, they generate their own counter-arguments, which are often more persuasive than the therapist's.
Which of the following is an example of 'belief chaining'?
Answer: Connecting a triggering event to a belief to an emotion to a behavior in a functional sequence
Belief chaining maps the sequence from trigger → belief → emotion → behavior, clarifying how the belief drives the problematic cycle.
A client with a belief that 'the world is dangerous' is best helped by graded exposure because:
Answer: Repeated safe encounters with feared situations disconfirm the danger belief experientially
Graded exposure provides repeated real-world evidence that contradicts the danger belief, making change experiential rather than only intellectual.
The 'historical review' technique in belief change involves:
Answer: Examining all available life evidence, both past and present, that supports or contradicts a core belief
Historical review systematically surveys the client's life for evidence that challenges the completeness or accuracy of a long-held core belief.
In motivational interviewing applied to belief change, 'rolling with resistance' means:
Answer: Reflecting ambivalence without arguing, allowing the client to resolve it
Rolling with resistance avoids confrontation by reflecting the client's ambivalence back to them, which paradoxically reduces defensiveness and opens space for change.