Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ is an approach which involves repeated and prolonged exposure to fear cues of high intensity without relaxation

Answer: Flooding

Flashcard 2: Therapeutic graded exposure is similar to systematic desensitization, but there is no _____

Answer: relaxation training

Flashcard 3: What is the treatment of choice for adjustment disorder? _____

Answer: Psychotherapy

Flashcard 4: Is abstract thinking considered a favourable or unfavourable factor for a patient undergoing psychoanalysis?

Answer: Favourable

Extra: Psychological mindedness (the capacity for self-examination, self-reflection, and abstract thinking) is considered a favorable prognostic factor for psychoanalysis. Patients who are overly concrete or literal may struggle with the metaphorical and symbolic interpretations involved in the process.

Flashcard 5: The three components of cognitive therapy are: _____

Answer: Didactic aspects, Cognitive techniques and Behavioural techniques

Flashcard 6: When the patient is made to learn a new behaviour when exposed to his fear, by observation and imitation of the therapist this therapy is called _____.

Answer: participant modeling

Flashcard 7: An unconscious memory or thought can reach consciousness by overcoming the barrier of repression during _____ or free association

Answer: sleep

Flashcard 8: Treatment of functional aphonia is _____ and psychotherapy.

Answer: reassurance

Flashcard 9: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing involves inducing _____ when a person is imagining about an anxiety producing event.

Answer: saccades

Flashcard 10: "If it's true in one case, it applies to any case that is even slightly similar" demonstrates the maladaptive assumption of _____

Answer: overgeneralizing