Exam 2: NSG 526 Questions and Correct
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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
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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).
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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.
Altruism
Ans: Yaslom: The group is a place where members can help each other, and the
experience of being able to give something to another person can lift the member's
self esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal skills.
Instillation of hope