THEORY TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from
other participants in a group during therapy
Answer: make an observation about the group's silence and invite the
others to comment
●● the technique of "Information Giver".
Answer: During group members sharing methods they personally use for
dealing with problems
●● CBT
Answer: consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and
dream survey. The therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and
beliefs in order to increase the patient's realization about how thoughts
influence behaviors.
●● Attachment
Answer: Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships
between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least
one primary caregiver.
,●● Mileu
Answer: Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social,
economic, and cultural status.
●● Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference
Answer: Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient
whereas CAM focuses on mind-body interactions.
●● Beck
Answer: Beck developed the cognitive model of DEPRESSION and the
concept that cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological
disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
●● According to BECK depression can be understood via
Answer: 1) cognitive errors, and the
2) cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of SELF, a tendency toward
interpreting EXPERIENCES/WORLD in a negative manner, and
holding negative views of the FUTURE).
3. Schemas
●● Beck's Cognitive Therapy suggests
,Answer: Depression is triggered when dysfunctional schemas are
activated and give rise to negative cognitions and patterns of information
processing that precipitate depression
●● Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)
Answer: RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of CBT
●● RET (albert ellis)
Answer: is a psychotherapeutic approach that proposes that unrealistic
and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems.
The purpose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it
through active, philosophical, confrontational therapy.
●● RET assumption (albert ellis)
Answer: People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a desire or
preference into a demand or absolute must. (People become who they
become based on their beliefs).
●● Operant conditioning
Answer: voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences, and
behavioral responses are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a
behavior to occur more frequently. Positive reinforcement- getting a gift,
or negative reinforcement- removal of objectionable' or aversive
stimulus
, ●● Skinner
Answer: Absence of reinforcement, or extinction, also decreases
behavior by withholding a reward that has become habitual. Teachers
employ this strategy in the classroom when they ignore acting-out
behavior that had previously been rewarded by more attention.
Skinner's behavior model provides a concrete method for modifying or
replacing behaviors. Behavior management and modification programs
based on his principles have shown to be successful in altering targeted
behaviors. Programmed learning and token economies represent
extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learning. Behavioral methods are
particularly effective with children, adolescents, and individuals with
many forms of chronic mental illness.
●● Universality (Yalom)
Answer: The recognition of shared experiences and feelings among
group members and that these may be widespread or universal human
concerns, serves to remove a group member's sense of isolation, validate
their experiences, and raise self-esteem. knowing ones experience is not
unique
●● Altruism (Yalom)
Answer: The group is a place where members can help each other, and
the experience of being able to give something to another person can lift
the member's self esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles
and interpersonal skills.