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NSG 526 EXAM 2 ACTUAL 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Group Therapy primary purpose - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)make an observation about the
group's silence and invite the others to comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - (ANSWER)During group members sharing
methods they personally use for dealing with problems
CBT - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal
relationships between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at
least one primary caregiver.
Mileu - (ANSWER)Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social,
economic, and cultural status.
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Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference -
(ANSWER)Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM
focuses on mind-body interactions.
Beck - (ANSWER)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: - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains
bheavior (symptoms)
Ellis - (ANSWER)RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
ret - (ANSWER)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.
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RET assumption - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)operant conditioning
Operant conditioning - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)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.
NSG 526 EXAM 2 ACTUAL 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Group Therapy primary purpose - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)make an observation about the
group's silence and invite the others to comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - (ANSWER)During group members sharing
methods they personally use for dealing with problems
CBT - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal
relationships between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at
least one primary caregiver.
Mileu - (ANSWER)Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social,
economic, and cultural status.
,2
Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference -
(ANSWER)Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM
focuses on mind-body interactions.
Beck - (ANSWER)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: - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains
bheavior (symptoms)
Ellis - (ANSWER)RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
ret - (ANSWER)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.
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RET assumption - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)operant conditioning
Operant conditioning - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)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.
