NSG 526 Exam 2 Detailed Questions And
Expert Answers 2024/25
Group Therapy primary purpose - ANS The primary purpose of group therapy is to
facilitate changes by the patient to address identified problems.
A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other
participants in a group during therapy - ANS make an observation about the
group's silence and invite the others to comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - ANS During group members sharing
methods they personally use for dealing with problems
CBT - ANS 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 - ANS Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships
between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one
primary caregiver.
Mileu - ANS Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic,
and cultural status.
,Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference - ANS Western
medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-
body interactions.
Beck - ANS Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept
that cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
depression can be understood via schemas: - ANS Beck;
cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of self, tendency
toward interpreting experiences in a negative manner, and holding negative views
of the future).
Beck assumption - ANS Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains bheavior
(symptoms)
Ellis - ANS RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
ret - ANS 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 - ANS 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).
Skinner - ANS operant conditioning
Operant conditioning - ANS 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 - ANS 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 - ANS Yaslom: 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.
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