QUIZ: Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

This is the 30 item true/false quiz you will take after you read the course text. To read the course text and submit the quiz for credit, please first make payment.

1) CBT combines cognitive and behavioral therapies and has strong empirical support.

2) Skill acquisition and homework assignments are what set CBT apart from talk therapies.

3) Brief CT is the compression of CBT material and reduction of the average 12-20 sessions into four to eight sessions.

4) In Table 1.2, the use of bCBT for Schizophrenia, Specific Phobias and Sleep problems is given a “Yes” rating.

5) Patients who have clear goals for treatment are often good candidates for Brief CBT.

6) Knowledge about psychotherapy can be broken down into two broad domains; 1) knowledge of concepts and 2) knowledge of how to apply concepts.

7) CBT is not structured or goal-directed and relies very little on the relationship components of therapy (rapport, installation of hope, trust, collaboration).

8) Once identified, thematic content can be a very powerful mechanism to influence treatment outcomes.

9) The ABC model is used in a functional assessment.

10) The ABC Model postulates that behaviors are largely determined by antecedents (events that precede behavior/thoughts/mood) and consequences (events that follow the behavior/thoughts/mood).

11) Short-term consequences tend to be behavioral reinforcers, while long-term consequences tend to be negative outcomes.

12) The cognitive-behavioral model suggests that three layers of unhelpful thinking exist in individuals struggling with psychosocial difficulties: automatic thoughts, intermediate beliefs, and core beliefs.

13) We are often unaware of automatic thoughts because of their almost instantaneous nature.

14) Intermediate beliefs are attitudes or rules that a person follows in life that typically apply across situations (not situation specific as with automatic thoughts).

15) Core beliefs drive rules and automatic thoughts and are often formed in childhood.

16) Identifying unhelpful core beliefs is the first step in the cognitive component of therapy.

17) To identify an intermediate belief, you must first know how to recognize patients’ automatic thoughts.

18) One way to identify intermediate beliefs is to look for themes in the client’s automatic thoughts.

19) One homework assignment to give clients is to have them keep a notepad and list automatic thoughts they have throughout the day.

20) Typically, unhelpful automatic thoughts are the first targets in the cognitive component of CBT.

21) Socratic questioning involves a series of closed-ended questions.

22) A seven-column Thought Record is used to challenge unhelpful thoughts and beliefs.

23) When a client’s mood does not change after a Thought Record is completed, it could be attributed to the client’s deeply rooted belief in the automatic thought, to an unchanged underlying core belief, or to additional automatic beliefs that have not been evaluated.

24) If a thought testing is ineffective in reducing negative mood, you can explore the advantages and disadvantages of maintaining a thought/belief.

25) Use the client’s exact words when recording thoughts and feelings.

26) If the client is not collaborative in completing the Thought Record, it is possible they might have automatic thoughts about the exercise that need to be explored.

27) Exposure therapy is defined by its systematic approach to confronting feared stimuli in the presence of a safe environment.

28) In the SOLVED technique, “S” stands for Selecting a solution.

29) PMR consists of learning how to tense and then relax various groups of muscles all through the body in a sequential fashion, while paying close attention to the feelings associated with both tension and relaxation.

30) The last session of brief CBT should be spent reviewing and recording the different cognitive and behavioral skills the patient has learned. Use Socratic questioning to elicit this list.