DBT LBC TEST EVALUATION ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Cognitive styles refer to - ✔✔modes of information processing such as cognitive
rigidity and flexibility, divergent and convergent thinking styles, dichotomous thinking,
concentration, abstracting styles and attentional deficits
✔✔There are 2 cognitive modification procedures: - ✔✔cognitive restructuring and
contingency clarification
✔✔Cognitive restructuring - ✔✔aims at changing the general or habitual content or form
of the patients thinking as well as the patient cognitive style
like insight- focus on patterns
✔✔contingency clarification - ✔✔focus on modifying "if then" expectancies operating in
specific instances. like bca, focus on here and now
✔✔Contingency clarification strategies checklist: T highlights contingencies; T focuses
Ps attention on effects of behavior on current outcomes in - ✔✔in everyday life
with respect to P's problematic behavior
With respect to effect of P's behaviors on other people and their responses to P
with respect to effect of P's behavior on therapeutic relationship
with treatment outcomes
T is mindful of clarifying contingencies when using BCA, insight, and reciprocal
communication strategies (when u do this i feel this)
✔✔Contingency clarification strategies checklist: Communicating future contingencies in
therapy - ✔✔what t will do, given p behaviors
what p can reasonably expect from t
✔✔In cognitive restructuring procedures, 4 aspects of thinking are important - ✔✔1. non
dialectal thinking
2 faulty general rule governing beliefs
3 dysfunctional descriptions
, 4 dysfunctional allocation of attention
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist - ✔✔T explicitly helps P observe and
describe her own th9inking style, rules, and verbal descriptions
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist - ✔✔T identifies confronts and
challenges specific dysfunctional rules, labels, and styles, but does so in a dialectical
manner
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist: T assist P in generating more functional
and/or accurate thinking styles, rules, and verbal descriptions - ✔✔T does not claim to
have a lock on absolute truth
T values intuitive sources of knowing
T values getting data when non have been collected so far
T focuses on function, effective thinking rather then necessarily truth or accurate
thinking
T pushes P to the limit of her ability in generating her own adaptive thinking styles, rules
and verbal descriptions
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist: T assists P in developing guidelines on
when to trust and when to suspect her own interpretations - ✔✔T applies contingency
and skill training procedures in cognitive modification
T helps P integrate cognitive strategies used in skills training modules intro everyday life
T implements or refer P to a formal cognitive therapy program
✔✔There are 4 reciprocal communcation strategies - ✔✔responsiveness, self
disclosure, warm engagement and geniuses
✔✔Reciprocal communication strategies checklist: T is responsive to P - ✔✔T attends
to P in a mindful manner; T is awake during interactions with P (T attends to small
changes in Ps behavior during interactions, T varies affect expression and nonverbal
response according to content of Ps communication, expressing, interest and active
involvement. T matches P's intensity, The time of T's response conveys understanding
and interest)
T takes P's agenda seriously ( T responds to the content of Ps communication (t
responds to p's questions with relevant answers and the content of t's responses is
directly relevant to p's communication)
T elaborates P's content
✔✔Reciprocal communication strategies checklist: T self discloses - ✔✔T orients P to
role of self disclosure in DBT
T engages in self involving self disclosure in DBT
T provides P with ongoing reactions to P and to their behavior using I statements of the
form when you do x i feel y
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Cognitive styles refer to - ✔✔modes of information processing such as cognitive
rigidity and flexibility, divergent and convergent thinking styles, dichotomous thinking,
concentration, abstracting styles and attentional deficits
✔✔There are 2 cognitive modification procedures: - ✔✔cognitive restructuring and
contingency clarification
✔✔Cognitive restructuring - ✔✔aims at changing the general or habitual content or form
of the patients thinking as well as the patient cognitive style
like insight- focus on patterns
✔✔contingency clarification - ✔✔focus on modifying "if then" expectancies operating in
specific instances. like bca, focus on here and now
✔✔Contingency clarification strategies checklist: T highlights contingencies; T focuses
Ps attention on effects of behavior on current outcomes in - ✔✔in everyday life
with respect to P's problematic behavior
With respect to effect of P's behaviors on other people and their responses to P
with respect to effect of P's behavior on therapeutic relationship
with treatment outcomes
T is mindful of clarifying contingencies when using BCA, insight, and reciprocal
communication strategies (when u do this i feel this)
✔✔Contingency clarification strategies checklist: Communicating future contingencies in
therapy - ✔✔what t will do, given p behaviors
what p can reasonably expect from t
✔✔In cognitive restructuring procedures, 4 aspects of thinking are important - ✔✔1. non
dialectal thinking
2 faulty general rule governing beliefs
3 dysfunctional descriptions
, 4 dysfunctional allocation of attention
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist - ✔✔T explicitly helps P observe and
describe her own th9inking style, rules, and verbal descriptions
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist - ✔✔T identifies confronts and
challenges specific dysfunctional rules, labels, and styles, but does so in a dialectical
manner
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist: T assist P in generating more functional
and/or accurate thinking styles, rules, and verbal descriptions - ✔✔T does not claim to
have a lock on absolute truth
T values intuitive sources of knowing
T values getting data when non have been collected so far
T focuses on function, effective thinking rather then necessarily truth or accurate
thinking
T pushes P to the limit of her ability in generating her own adaptive thinking styles, rules
and verbal descriptions
✔✔Cognitive restructuring procedure checklist: T assists P in developing guidelines on
when to trust and when to suspect her own interpretations - ✔✔T applies contingency
and skill training procedures in cognitive modification
T helps P integrate cognitive strategies used in skills training modules intro everyday life
T implements or refer P to a formal cognitive therapy program
✔✔There are 4 reciprocal communcation strategies - ✔✔responsiveness, self
disclosure, warm engagement and geniuses
✔✔Reciprocal communication strategies checklist: T is responsive to P - ✔✔T attends
to P in a mindful manner; T is awake during interactions with P (T attends to small
changes in Ps behavior during interactions, T varies affect expression and nonverbal
response according to content of Ps communication, expressing, interest and active
involvement. T matches P's intensity, The time of T's response conveys understanding
and interest)
T takes P's agenda seriously ( T responds to the content of Ps communication (t
responds to p's questions with relevant answers and the content of t's responses is
directly relevant to p's communication)
T elaborates P's content
✔✔Reciprocal communication strategies checklist: T self discloses - ✔✔T orients P to
role of self disclosure in DBT
T engages in self involving self disclosure in DBT
T provides P with ongoing reactions to P and to their behavior using I statements of the
form when you do x i feel y
