CBT Mindfulness & Acceptance Approaches 3

Question 1

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was originally developed to prevent relapse in which population?

Accepted Answer

Clients with recurrent major depression

Answer

MBCT was developed by Segal, Williams, and Teasdale specifically to prevent relapse in individuals with three or more episodes of major depression.

Question 2

The ACT metaphor of 'passengers on the bus' is used to illustrate:

Accepted Answer

How difficult thoughts and feelings can threaten to redirect value-based behavior

Answer

The 'passengers on the bus' metaphor shows how thoughts and feelings (passengers) may demand the driver (client) change direction, illustrating defusion and committed action despite inner obstacles.

Question 3

Body scan meditation primarily serves to develop which therapeutic skill?

Accepted Answer

Interoceptive awareness and non-judgmental attention to physical sensations

Answer

Body scan meditation systematically cultivates interoceptive awareness—the ability to notice bodily sensations with curiosity and non-judgment rather than reacting to them.

Question 4

A client practicing mindfulness notices they keep judging themselves for 'doing it wrong.' The MOST skillful therapeutic response is to:

Accepted Answer

Help the client apply mindful observation to the judging thoughts themselves

Answer

The most skillful response is to help the client notice the judging mind with the same non-judgmental awareness applied to any other mental content, turning mindfulness toward the judging itself.

Question 5

In DBT, the TIPP skill is used for crisis situations and includes which of the following components?

Accepted Answer

Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, Progressive relaxation

Answer

TIPP stands for Temperature (cold water on face), Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Progressive relaxation—distress tolerance skills that rapidly reduce physiological arousal.

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CBT Mindfulness & Acceptance Approaches 3