CBT FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
psychotherapy - Answer-the informed and intentional application of clinical methods and
interpersonal stances derived from established psychological principles for the purpose
of assisting people to modify their behaviors, cognitions, emotions, and or other
personal characteristics in directions that the participants deem desirable
psychotherapist - Answer-one who assists others in the practice of psychotherapy
behavioral therapy - Answer-emphasis on science and empiricism, active orientation,
present focused, learning focus, stepwise progression
cognitive behavioral therapy - Answer-treatments that change cognitions that are
influencing psychological problems
homework assignment - Answer-specific therapeutic tasks clients perform in their
everyday environments
in vivo - Answer-therapy procedures that are implemented in the client's natural
environment
self-control approach - Answer-training clients to initiate, implement, and evaluate
behavior therapy procedures on their own
present focus - Answer-current functioning and life conditions
learning focus - Answer-Pavlow and Skinner
individualized therapy - Answer-specific for each person
stepwise progression - Answer-building up change over time
treatment package - Answer-two or more behavior therapy procedures
brevity - Answer-
multimethod assessment - Answer-use of two or more methods to gather information
about a target behavior and its maintaining conditions
multimodal assessment - Answer-assessment of two or more of the four modes of
behavior
, fear survey schedule - Answer-direct self-report inventory for rating the severity of fear
or anxiety elicited by various situations and objects
Direct self-report inventories - Answer-questionnaire containing brief statements or
questions requiring simple, discrete, answers; clients' complete it themselves to provide
information about their problem behaviors
self-recording/self-monitoring - Answer-clients' observing and keeping records of their
target behaviors
Subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) - Answer-scale clients use to rate the level of
anxiety they experience in anxiety-evoking situations; usually the scale ranges from 0-
10
checklist - Answer-list of potential problem behaviors; someone who knows the client
well checks those behaviors that are problematic for the client
rating scale - Answer-list of potential problem behaviors; someone who knows the client
well rates the frequency or severity of each behavior for the clients
interrater reliability - Answer-Extent to which two raters agree on their ratings or
judgments of a client's behavior
systematic naturalistic observation - Answer-observation and recording of a
predetermined set of overt behaviors as the client preforms them in his/her natural
environment
interobserver reliability - Answer-the extent to which different observers agree on their
observations of a client's behaviors
adaptation period - Answer-initial period in systematic naturalistic observation in which
observations are made, but the data are not used; allows the client to become
accustomed to the observer's presence in order to reduce reactivity
simulated observation - Answer-observing a client's behaviors under conditions set up
to resemble those in the client's natural environment
Behavior Approach test - Answer-simulated observation to assess fear; clients are
asked to engage in a series of steps that involve progressively more fear-inducing
behaviors
role playing - Answer-assessment or therapy technique in which clients act as if they
were in actual problem situations to provide the therapist with samples of how they
typically behavior in the situations or to practice adaptive behaviors
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