MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY NURS 661 EXAM
3 MEGADECK EXAM(ACTUAL EXAM)
WITH CORRECT ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED ANSWERS
LATEST ALREADY GRADED A+ 2026
irrational basic beliefs - ANSWERS-1) I MUST do well and be
approved of (depression, anxiety, despair, self-doubt)
2) People MUST OUGHT SHOULD treat me considerately and
fairly. (anger, rage, homicide, genocide)
3) Conditions under which I live (environment, social
conditions, economic conditions, political conditions)
must be arranged so that I get a "free lunch" (low
frustration tolerance)
Beck's negative cognitive triad of depression - ANSWERS-1)
negative evaluation of SELF "I am unworthy"
2)negative evaluation of THE WORLD "Everything is just
more evidence that the world is falling apart"
3) Negative evaluation of the THE FUTURE "Nothing will
ever get better"
,I suck, the world sucks, everything will always suck"
Beck's 5 components - ANSWERS-1) genetic predisposition,
modeling by caregivers, adverse life events (inaccurate or
negative beliefs)
2) Self schema (deep beliefs) lie dormant until they're
activated by stressful life events or negative mood sates or
are consistent with the underlying belief
3) When beliefs are activated, individuals respond with
automatic thoughts
4)Repeated activation of negative thoughts result in biased
information processing
5) automatic thoughts, or core beliefs, (associated
emotional disturbances) can be modified via cognitive
therapy - do not need to explore past
Therapy Techniques - ANSWERS-1) Vigorous and forceful
disputing irrational beliefs
2) Stress inoculation training : preparing self-statement,
coping self statements, and positive self-statements that
they got through it
3) Generating Alternative Interpretations
4) Thinking in Shades of Gray
,Ways to identify automatic thoughts - ANSWERS-GUESSING
THE THOUGHT: if client doesn't know
VERTICAL DESCENT: rooting out their real fear
CHASING COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS: Cost-benefit (is this
working for you?)
double standard (Would everyone see it this way?)
Donald Meichenbaum (SIT)
Self-instructional Therapy - ANSWERS-Started behaviorally;
talking to oneself helped
Take inner speech out of clients head and into the therapy
office and use more adaptive speech. Internalize
Self-instructional training - ANSWERS-Behavior change
occurs through a sequence of mediating processes involving
interaction of inner speech, cognitive structures and
behaviors, and their outcomes
Stress inoculation training (also SIT) - ANSWERS-helps client
through difficult stressors
Practical
, Collaborative
Empathetic
Emotionally oriented
"plucks out" phrases and repeated words client uses
Cognitive Appraisal Theories - ANSWERS-1. Pays too much
attention to negative thoughts
2. Overestimates the likelihood of a negative outcome
3. Exaggerates the significance of potential or real negative
events
Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) - ANSWERS-Conscious
thought between an external event and a particular
emotional response
A-B-C model - ANSWERS-A - Activating event
B - Belief about event
C - consequent emotion and behavior
What area of the brain is most often linked to violence
among patients? - ANSWERS-Prefrontal- cortex
3 MEGADECK EXAM(ACTUAL EXAM)
WITH CORRECT ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED ANSWERS
LATEST ALREADY GRADED A+ 2026
irrational basic beliefs - ANSWERS-1) I MUST do well and be
approved of (depression, anxiety, despair, self-doubt)
2) People MUST OUGHT SHOULD treat me considerately and
fairly. (anger, rage, homicide, genocide)
3) Conditions under which I live (environment, social
conditions, economic conditions, political conditions)
must be arranged so that I get a "free lunch" (low
frustration tolerance)
Beck's negative cognitive triad of depression - ANSWERS-1)
negative evaluation of SELF "I am unworthy"
2)negative evaluation of THE WORLD "Everything is just
more evidence that the world is falling apart"
3) Negative evaluation of the THE FUTURE "Nothing will
ever get better"
,I suck, the world sucks, everything will always suck"
Beck's 5 components - ANSWERS-1) genetic predisposition,
modeling by caregivers, adverse life events (inaccurate or
negative beliefs)
2) Self schema (deep beliefs) lie dormant until they're
activated by stressful life events or negative mood sates or
are consistent with the underlying belief
3) When beliefs are activated, individuals respond with
automatic thoughts
4)Repeated activation of negative thoughts result in biased
information processing
5) automatic thoughts, or core beliefs, (associated
emotional disturbances) can be modified via cognitive
therapy - do not need to explore past
Therapy Techniques - ANSWERS-1) Vigorous and forceful
disputing irrational beliefs
2) Stress inoculation training : preparing self-statement,
coping self statements, and positive self-statements that
they got through it
3) Generating Alternative Interpretations
4) Thinking in Shades of Gray
,Ways to identify automatic thoughts - ANSWERS-GUESSING
THE THOUGHT: if client doesn't know
VERTICAL DESCENT: rooting out their real fear
CHASING COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS: Cost-benefit (is this
working for you?)
double standard (Would everyone see it this way?)
Donald Meichenbaum (SIT)
Self-instructional Therapy - ANSWERS-Started behaviorally;
talking to oneself helped
Take inner speech out of clients head and into the therapy
office and use more adaptive speech. Internalize
Self-instructional training - ANSWERS-Behavior change
occurs through a sequence of mediating processes involving
interaction of inner speech, cognitive structures and
behaviors, and their outcomes
Stress inoculation training (also SIT) - ANSWERS-helps client
through difficult stressors
Practical
, Collaborative
Empathetic
Emotionally oriented
"plucks out" phrases and repeated words client uses
Cognitive Appraisal Theories - ANSWERS-1. Pays too much
attention to negative thoughts
2. Overestimates the likelihood of a negative outcome
3. Exaggerates the significance of potential or real negative
events
Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) - ANSWERS-Conscious
thought between an external event and a particular
emotional response
A-B-C model - ANSWERS-A - Activating event
B - Belief about event
C - consequent emotion and behavior
What area of the brain is most often linked to violence
among patients? - ANSWERS-Prefrontal- cortex
