WILKES NSG 526 EXAM 2
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 2026 LATEST STUDY
GUIDE
,1. Group Therapy primary purpose ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER The primary purpose of group therapy is to facilitate changes by the patient to address
identified problems.
2. A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other participants in a group during therapy ✔
✔ CORRECT ANSWER make an observation about the group's silence and invite the others to comment
3. the technique of "Information Giver". ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER During group members sharing methods they personally use for dealing
with problems
4. CBT ✔✔ CORRECT 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.
5. Attachment ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships between humans. A child needs to form a relationship
between at least one primary caregiver.
6. Mileu ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic, and cultural status.
7. Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Western med- icine
focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-body interactions.
8. Beck ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Beck developed the cognitive model of DEPRESSION and the concept that cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological
disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
9. According to BECK depression can be understood via ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER 1) cognitive errors, and the
2) cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of SELF, a tendency toward interpreting EXPERIENCES/WORLD in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the FUTURE).
3. Schemas
10. Beck's Cognitive Therapy suggests ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Depression is triggered when dysfunctional schemas are activated and give
rise to negative cognitions and patterns of information processing that precipitate depression
11. Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of CBT
12. RET (albert ellis) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER is a psychotherapeutic approach that proposes that 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.
13. RET assumption (albert ellis) ✔✔ CORRECT 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).
, 14. Operant conditioning ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences, and behavioral respons- es 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
15. Skinner ✔✔ CORRECT 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
ettective with children, adolescents, and individuals with many forms of chronic mental illness.
16. Universality (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER 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. knowing ones experience is
not unique
17. Altruism (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER 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.
The act of one member helping another putting others need before their own and learning that there is value in giving to others.
Freud believed it was a major factor in establishing group cohesion and community feeling.
18. Instillation of hope (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER In a mixed group that has members at various stages of development or recovery, a member can
be inspired and encouraged by another member who has overcome the problems with which they are still struggling.
19. Imparting of information (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER learning factual information from other members, for example about tmt or about
access to services
20. Corrective recapitulation of primary family experience (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Members often unconsciously
identify the group therapist and other group members with their own parents and siblings in a process that is a form of transference specific to group psychotherapy. The
therapist's interpretations can help group members gain understanding of the impact of childhood experiences on their personality, and they may learn to avoid unconsciously
repeating unhelpful past interactive patterns in present-day relationships.
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 2026 LATEST STUDY
GUIDE
,1. Group Therapy primary purpose ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER The primary purpose of group therapy is to facilitate changes by the patient to address
identified problems.
2. A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other participants in a group during therapy ✔
✔ CORRECT ANSWER make an observation about the group's silence and invite the others to comment
3. the technique of "Information Giver". ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER During group members sharing methods they personally use for dealing
with problems
4. CBT ✔✔ CORRECT 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.
5. Attachment ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships between humans. A child needs to form a relationship
between at least one primary caregiver.
6. Mileu ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic, and cultural status.
7. Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Western med- icine
focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-body interactions.
8. Beck ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Beck developed the cognitive model of DEPRESSION and the concept that cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological
disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
9. According to BECK depression can be understood via ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER 1) cognitive errors, and the
2) cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of SELF, a tendency toward interpreting EXPERIENCES/WORLD in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the FUTURE).
3. Schemas
10. Beck's Cognitive Therapy suggests ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Depression is triggered when dysfunctional schemas are activated and give
rise to negative cognitions and patterns of information processing that precipitate depression
11. Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of CBT
12. RET (albert ellis) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER is a psychotherapeutic approach that proposes that 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.
13. RET assumption (albert ellis) ✔✔ CORRECT 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).
, 14. Operant conditioning ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences, and behavioral respons- es 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
15. Skinner ✔✔ CORRECT 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
ettective with children, adolescents, and individuals with many forms of chronic mental illness.
16. Universality (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER 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. knowing ones experience is
not unique
17. Altruism (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER 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.
The act of one member helping another putting others need before their own and learning that there is value in giving to others.
Freud believed it was a major factor in establishing group cohesion and community feeling.
18. Instillation of hope (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER In a mixed group that has members at various stages of development or recovery, a member can
be inspired and encouraged by another member who has overcome the problems with which they are still struggling.
19. Imparting of information (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER learning factual information from other members, for example about tmt or about
access to services
20. Corrective recapitulation of primary family experience (Yalom) ✔✔ CORRECT ANSWER Members often unconsciously
identify the group therapist and other group members with their own parents and siblings in a process that is a form of transference specific to group psychotherapy. The
therapist's interpretations can help group members gain understanding of the impact of childhood experiences on their personality, and they may learn to avoid unconsciously
repeating unhelpful past interactive patterns in present-day relationships.
