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Techniques and Intervention Strategies Flashcards

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  1. A therapist assigns a client homework to engage in one pleasurable activity daily and record their mood before and after. This is MOST consistent with:

    Answer: Behavioral activation with mood monitoring

    Behavioral activation combined with mood monitoring helps clients see the relationship between pleasant activities and improved affect, reinforcing engagement.

  2. Which technique would a CBT therapist use to help a client with GAD contain excessive worry to a designated 30-minute period each day?

    Answer: Worry postponement (scheduled worry time)

    Worry postponement schedules a fixed daily period for worry, training clients to defer intrusive worries and reduce their pervasive interference throughout the day.

  3. A therapist uses a two-column technique where the client writes negative automatic thoughts in one column and rational responses in the other. This is an adaptation of:

    Answer: Beck's dysfunctional thought record

    Beck's dysfunctional thought record (DTR) captures automatic thoughts alongside evidence-based rational alternatives to practice cognitive restructuring.

  4. During exposure for social anxiety, the therapist instructs the client to drop safety behaviors such as rehearsing scripts and avoiding eye contact. The PURPOSE is to:

    Answer: Allow full disconfirmation of social threat beliefs

    Dropping safety behaviors ensures that disconfirmatory information (the feared social catastrophe did not occur) is fully attributed to the situation being safe, not to the safety behavior.

  5. A client believes 'If I make one mistake, everyone will think I'm incompetent.' The therapist asks for the client's definition of 'incompetent' and what evidence would actually prove incompetence. This is called:

    Answer: Defining terms and examining thresholds

    Defining terms and examining thresholds clarifies vague all-or-nothing labels, revealing that the client's standards for 'incompetent' are likely unrealistically high.

  6. The technique of 'cognitive rehearsal' in CBT involves:

    Answer: Mentally rehearsing adaptive responses to anticipated difficult situations

    Cognitive rehearsal has clients mentally walk through upcoming challenging situations using adaptive thinking and coping strategies to prepare for real-life application.

  7. A CBT therapist uses 'graded task assignment' for a depressed client who feels overwhelmed by a major goal. The FIRST step would be:

    Answer: Breaking the goal into small, achievable sub-tasks starting with the easiest

    Graded task assignment decomposes overwhelming goals into manageable sequential steps to restore a sense of mastery and counter hopelessness in depression.